Developing Compassion for the Sexually Abused - Part 3

Living Proof with Beth Moore

Beth Moore

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Beth continues this three-part series in an effort to explain what it's like to be sexually abused and how you might picture it and even try it on. Today, she'll gives families, friends and churches of victims hope-filled ways to come alongside the victim and help them carry that burden. Visit our YouTube channel to watch bonus content and hear a final challenge from Beth. You don't want to miss it!

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0:00.0	Living Proof with Beth Moore is sponsored by the friends and partners of Living Proof Ministries.
0:07.2	I mean, Jesus was a carpenter. He definitely knows how to rebuild and help them recover their true selves.
0:17.9	Let me say this, help them and help us by accepting what we have endured and believe with us
0:28.5	and when we can't believe for ourselves believe for us that God can make a miracle.
0:52.9	We have some pastors and church staff members here tonight.
0:57.3	And so you're wondering, or you wouldn't be here,
1:05.0	you care, and I'm so thankful for that, what can you do to help? First, where the individual victim is concerned, you really can help rebuild those boundaries by addressing these matters openly in sermons and
1:13.5	Bible studies, just like you would any other very prevalent hurt or challenge that is in the life
1:21.4	of your parishioners or your congregation. In other words, you're talking about adding it into sermons and messages where you bring it
1:31.9	up, where it's no longer in the shadows and no longer whispered, but it's talked about just as
1:37.0	clearly as it would be if you knew that these kind of statistics that many people had cancer
1:43.4	in your congregation, you would be talking
1:46.1	and I would be talking about it. We would be teaching to it. You would be preaching to it because
1:52.5	we would know that that huge need was there. We learned from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention that more than one in three women
2:03.6	and nearly one in four men have experienced sexual violence involving physical contact at some point in their lives.
2:11.6	Nearly one in five women have experienced completed or attempted rape in their lifetimes. One in five.
2:22.2	We know that if those statistics were true of any other malady, man, we would be talking about it.
2:31.3	That helps take the stigma of shame off of it. It also tells them,
2:36.3	okay, I'm in a safe place where I really could come forward to someone to a trustworthy person
2:43.2	in leadership and go, this is my background. What do you have? What do you offer? What would
2:48.8	you recommend? It's when we stop whispering and start
2:52.5	actually talking about it, that we can get over this sense of shame of it because that shame is
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