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>>>I've been in this church on and off for 34 yr's... >>>Been there done it and got the video in between. >>>Talked to Pete E, read all the arguments and done all >>>the human emotions... All i can say is.. GOD IS IN >>>CONTROL. I went through awful times as a teen, did my >>>time, and lived through it.. as alot of my friends, >>>still close to me now.. But through all the things i >>>thought were solutions, drink, drugs, sex, bulimia, >>>anorexia, self harming... My God proved faithful. Not >>>my upbringing, not the Jesus Army, not my parents.. >>>but God. He proved he was real to me, not religion, >>>but a personal experience. I could be Jane Cook now >>>and have people blaming the church.. thought about >>>suicide many a time. Also been very bitter towards >>>church, but after all my "trying out the world".. I >>>felt empty, and all i hurt was myself. I choose to go >>>back, and i wouldn't change my world for the beckhams >>>:) I choose to go to the Jesus Army, after being very >>>hurt, i am not brainwashed or stupid..I just love a >>>God who delivered me from a life of crap, and who i >>>have a personal experience with.. I'm far from >perfect >>>and have to use my will not to return to a messed up >>>person but that is my choice, and with free will i >>>answer to God alone one day, not Jesus Army.. i just >>>choose to be in a church that i have seen change, >>>repent and admit where it went wrong. Its all about >>>forgiveness and moving on.. We do it all the time as >>>humans, why is it different in this case? God didn't >>>screw up, Jesus Army didn't screw up.. INDIVIDUALS >>>screwed up.. >> >> >>I don't think I read this carefully enough, but I >>think it is a sad story, where a girl who was put >>through hell in community, went out into the world and >>because of all she had been through, couldn't handle >>life. You don't have to have a JA childhood to end up >>fcuked up, but that was the case here. >> >>And the saddest thing is that she sees the JA now as >>her solution...and sees the outside world as the >>source of the problem. >> >>She is like a battered wife who will tell you that her >>absusive husband is misunderstood and has begged her >>forgiveness and will never hurt her again. >> >>"Jesus Army didn't screw up.. INDIVIDUALS >>screwed up". Are members of the JA not individuals, >>and the JA not the body of christ? When people are >>harmed by the heavy-handed shepherding of its most >>senior members, it is just plain dishonest for the >>church to wash its hands of their elders' actions. > >YAWN
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