We’re all susceptible to it whether it’s being mistreated, or mistreating those under our care. Rather, it is a phenomenon that is verified by both research and experience.” Such a sad statement to make. This worst-case scenario for the church, one that is increasing in epidemic proportions, is not a misinterpretation by a few discontented clergy. In his book “The Wounded Minister”, Guy Greenfield says “Abuse of pastors by congregations and the breakdown of pastors due to inadequate support are now tragic realities. I’ve seen it in my own ministry family’s life. I’ve heard horror stories of how people were treated when they had given their lives to ministering to a certain church or people group. I’ve seen this in friend’s lives, who were formerly in ministry and not only left ministry, but left the church altogether. Where we should be each other’s biggest cheerleaders, we can be found fighting, belittling, and assasinating character left and right. Over and over again I see the persecution of Western Christians coming from within the church. Where we should be each other’s biggest cheerleaders, we can be found fighting, belittling, and assassinating character left and right. When the world shoots arrows at me, I’m not surprised.īut what about when those arrows come from a brother or sister? Over and over again I see the persecution of Western Christians coming from within the church. The world will treat us the way it treated Him, and his treatment was far from humane. We are told that since the world hated Jesus, we will also be hated. The Bible warns us to be ready for persecution. Everyone knows that the most painful wounds come from those who are closest to us. Cameron Thomas, 23, of Ohio.Just the term gives me a little shudder. Joshua Rodgers, 22, of Illinois, and Sgt. The two servicemen killed were identified as Sgt. military dropped a massive bomb earlier this month. The raid was conducted in Mohmand Valley in Nagarhar Province, the same area where the U.S. It was during these initial moments of the raid that the two Rangers were mortally wounded,” he said. “Within minutes of the insertion the combined force came under intense fire from multiple directions. “This was a dangerous mission and we knew this going in,” Davis told reporters. According to Davis, about 35 IS militants were killed during the hours-long firefight late Wednesday, and a top leader of the terrorist group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was suspected among the dead. An investigation has been opened into their deaths to determine whether they were killed by Afghan forces helping U.S. Army Rangers killed during a raid on an Islamic State compound in Afghanistan earlier this week may have been killed by friendly fire, the Pentagon said Friday.
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