Damaged By the Church is a post where I share my experience of listening to people share about their spiritual walk through this life. Read on to learn what I have experienced from traveling around the world and meeting many diverse people with diverse beliefs!
Damaged By the Church
In my travels around the world, I have noticed in my Christian walk that many people say they have been damaged from a particular denomination or religion. Many people have told me they are recovering Catholics. One man in particular recounted how painful it was when a nun at a Catholic school hit his hand repeatedly with a ruler and caused the man’s hand to bleed.
May I suggest you not give up on Christianity and give Jesus & the Bible a chance? The reason is so evident to me as God’s Word ( Bible ) gives me power to exist in this world filled with natural disasters, earthquakes, fires, floods, war, injustice, conflict and now pestilences with Covid19 ravaging society.
I grew up in a so called Christian home in the southern part of the USA. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, practically every family identified as ‘Christian’. We had a large family Bible but it collected dust instead of being opened and read.
When I became an adult, I did not set foot in a church except to attend a funeral or marriage. My higher power from 1977 until 1994 was wine, women and song.
My life fell apart in 1988 with a serious accident that landed me in the burn center at a major hospital. I was 29 years old and struggled between being homeless and jobless for several years. I hit what some people call rock bottom in February 1994 and God has slowly healed me since.
Ever since Jesus entered my heart in 2007, my life has not been the same. I knew about God intellectually but did not have His peace & love for souls in my heart.
I am still falling short as sometimes I do not love my neighbor as myself. I ask for forgiveness each day to cover my shortcomings.
Look at this powerful scripture that we can pray when we have sinned. Most human beings know when they have done wrong as even an atheist has morals. In 1998, I heard a man that claims atheism as his philosophy share a powerful testimony of how he helps people in a community group. He said he understands how serving his community is his way of understanding the world and his concept of a higher power.
1 John 1:9
If We Confess Our Sins, He Is Faithful and Just to Forgive Us Our Sins, and to Cleanse Us From All Unrighteousness.
Jesus has more to offer than Buddha, Confucius or Muhammad. When we accept Jesus into our hearts, we are promised that He will never leave us and He will come again for us. The promise of eternal life is only available through Jesus. The graves of Buddha, Confucius and Muhammad are all occupied.
According to what the Bible teaches, we only have to die once ( physical death ). When Jesus Christ returns at His Second Coming, the Bible says the Righteous Dead and Righteous Living will rise into the air and be with Him. For me, I cannot wait to see that Super Natural event happen.
Please give the Savior a chance. If you ever doubt He loves you, just look at the Cross at Calvary. Because God is LOVE, we do not have to be Damaged By the Church all our lives.
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Hi, I read your post with interest. I was raised as a catholic (and spent time on a school run by nuns) but never practiced it. Our son however joined the Church of England as an adult. It came as a surprise to us. Now I find myself reading the Bible again. Inspired by our son. Isn’t it strange how these things can go.
Hello Raymond,
Apologies for such a late reply. Hope reading the Bible has been a blessing to you as it has for my wife and I. There are good people in the Church of England but I need to be in a Bible based church.