If you’re not personally involved with oppressive relationships, but you love Jesus and His people, what difference can you make?
Maybe you’ve been keeping up with Clarity in Action Ministries and providing prayer support. We are grateful! Or maybe you have talked with your leadership team about a half-day training or taken the Biblical Victim Care Course. Thank you.
Perhaps you’re not sure what your role is, but you’re kind enough to read our newsletter and consider your part. Here’s something all of us can do:
Move the needle of our lives and church cultures away from convention and toward reality.
We are quick to use niceties and placating statements instead of speaking truth.
“What’s happening?”
“Nothing. It’s all good.”
The problem is on both sides of the equation. When we ask we rarely want (or prepare for) the truth. When we’re asked, we rarely want to provide an honest answer. Warren Lamb, in the book, Unbound: Growing Ever Freer in Christ, notes,
God is a God of truth and deals in reality. He cannot help us with problems that are
not current and real. While God is intimately involved in every aspect of our lives, He cannot help us solve problems that do not exist or that we do not yet face. (page 213)
Lies and deceit are exposed with truth. But until we as individuals, and our churches as corporate bodies, acknowledge and speak truth, we make provision for sin and darkness.
The purpose of this newsletter is to present a challenge to think and live truthfully. God is not afraid of what we might uncover. He will not withhold His goodness or love as a result of truth. In fact, as we come to terms with reality and invite Him to help us, we are reminded that
… we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need. (Hebrews 4:15-16)
Prayerfully,
Clarity in Action Ministries
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