Hannah Thomas

I also have no issue with what some coin soft comps either.

I was reading an article today:
http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4535&Itemid=5

I found the sermon that it was referring to, and uploaded it to internet archive like I do most things before they disappear for good! lol! http://www.archive.org/details/WorseCaseScenarios

This man took so much time trying to tip toe though the tulips regarding the message he was trying to get across. He claims he was talking about ‘worse case scenarios’ as far as marriage goes. How the abuse wouldn’t be the worse part, but the part about the spouse refusing to reconcile and work on issues as the worse part. That’s fine – okay then. He feels if all help from the church falls on deaf ears with him? He feels she needs to live the Sarah Principal – the scripture you mentioned earlier. He also feels that you need to make sure your sin didn’t influence his. YET before you claim yourself innocent he wants to remind his audience that has never never met a victimized spouse who responded perfectly to their spouse’s sin against them. In other words – look for your sin because its IN THERE somewhere!

Sigh. He is right I have never met a perfect person either here on earth, and I doubt anyone will any time SOON! When you play these games to avoid acknowledging that abuse exists? Its damaging to the people involved. When you wish to use scripture as your spiritual pixie dust to wave around, and avoid it all together? Do they not realize they are in sin as well? I mean with their advice they have handed her burden back to her, because it was to much for them to handle. YOU deal with it, and learn to suffer as Christ did! He never told you that your life will be pain free after all!

His whole production was ‘take the plank out of your eye’, and hinted around about submission in ways as well. He gave this huge case for the plank. How silly it looks for one with a huge plank to go to someone with a speck and say something. So now the plank is her influence to make him sin, and his speck is the abuse?

Its downright exhausting at times to listen to these games they play with scripture, and NOT deal with, expose, and help the oppressed if the oppressor refuses any help at all. Tell her to live the Sarah principal, because we did our part – WE ARE DONE!

Its like where is the backbone in these men that preach this junk? Did it break during the acrobats they played during the sermons? Ugh.