Re: Janita Bynum Beat up by Husband Pastor Weeks???? WTF
Amen... I did read the "rebuttal" in red and yes...it addresses things well.... Thank you, Dear Shimmie, for the balance....I love you and your words have encouraged me beyond measure....
I gotta say that this situation has knocked me off more than I had anticipated, esp. on a spiritual level. I can negotiate this from an intellectual space, but spiritually, in terms of the impact on the Body, has me on serious guard...and I know this for me to pray. I ain't scared (LOL!), but it's time to gird up, seriously, and get positioned because the Body is getting ready to go through some things... a purging... a tree-shaking...for real....
See, we think things happen from the top down...and in many instances, it does...but things happen from the bottom up, the inside out, if you will. As has been said, there are too many stories of domestic violence that have gone unheard, unchecked, unresolved. But they've happened on the inside of the body.... This particular situation is a more publicized instance of what has gone on on the inside....
Sigh.... I probably sound like I'm rambling but I really need to decompress regarding this situation.... and I need to keep praying....
It is I who appreciates you. For it is your post and Chanel's Tresses' combined that makes me appreciate all the more, how much we have in Jesus and how much we cannot take for granted.
So, RR, you're not rambling, you're telling the total truth. We indeed DO have to gird up. (As a matter of fact I received my new Waist Cincher today) ... it's symbolic to what you shared. In the Body (of Christ), we can't just let loose; we have to leave our 'comfort' zones and we have to gird up our loins to get / keep things straight.
For every attack, God has given us the means of a sucessful counteract and RR, you're so right, it's not from the top, but from the bottom up. In the Body, we take too much 'comfort' in being 'under' our leaders. This is why we're so shocked ... taken by surprise.
We see them (our leaders) as so powerful that no harm / danger / or wrong can ever happen to them. And when the Holy Spirit tries to show us something about them in the Spirit, we reject it as satan putting lies in our heads. When the actual lie was the former of which we placed them higher than they are as humans who could not fall or be harmed.
Who'd ever thought that this would occur to such persons as these two, Juanita and Thomas Weeks? We made them infalible; unbreakable; inhuman. I know, I'm truly guilty of this. With her marriage and his books and messages, I put too much admiration and stake into them and it was I who failed them by not thinking that they could ever have a problem in their lives, let alone their marriage.
I watched them grow together on TBN; at Bishop Charles Blake's church (West Angeles Church of Christ -- something occurred there that may have set a trigger in this tragedy of theirs);
I was a 'member' of their online ministry and received many of their downloads of messages for free; I have Thomas's autographed copy of their book "Teach Me How to Love You."
Two months ago, I came across Thomas's tape interview on the Teach Me How to Love You series. Now that I think of it, there were 'signs' there that I didn't take heed to. I've been listening to Juanita's music CD, "Morning Glory", another clue, that I didn't take heed to.
This is all a terrible nightmare to me. I can't even pinch myself to see if I'm awake.
I was so 'close' to them and yet so far away.
AND I KNEW BETTER. RR......I KNEW Better! Yes I did. I've seen this before with other ministers...my very own Pastor (former).
RR, I appreciate your stand so much. And I just wanted you to know that, even if it ever appears that I don't understand or if I 'slightly' disagree. You're still my girl, keeping me in check.
RR....