Excommunication Series: Marieda's Story [265]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
“Your high-handed sin against God is a dangerous domain, especially for those that claim Christ and have identified with the church.” Mareida read these words in shock after her “sin” of running away from her abuser had reached the ears of her church.
Marieda has a story to tell, and you’ll want to listen in. It’s a story of freedom from emotional abuse and then being punished for it by the church that was supposed to protect her. It’s a story of deep betrayal but also rising from the ashes.
This is the first in a series of three episodes about excommunication.
Meet Marieda. Here is her excommunication story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.2 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. Welcome to episode 265 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we are kicking off a mini series of episodes in which you're going to hear from three Christian abuse survivors who were excommunicated from their churches for divorcing their abuser. |
| 0:41.0 | And this was my experience as well, and if you want to learn more about my story, you can get my new book, |
| 0:47.0 | all the scary little gods on Amazon. But I'm not the only one. Thousands of women all over the world who have dared to escape |
| 0:56.5 | abusive relationships by obtaining legal protection through divorce have been |
| 1:02.0 | subsequently excommunicated by churches who claim to be |
| 1:06.3 | representatives of Jesus Christ. Can you imagine Jesus kicking an abuse victim out of his presence for escaping her abuser, it's |
| 1:17.1 | unthinkable. So let's meet our first guest in our ex communication series. |
| 1:23.1 | Her name is Marita. |
| 1:25.2 | Welcome. |
| 1:26.7 | Thanks so much, Natalie. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:29.8 | Okay, so why don't we start off by telling us what denomination were you excommunicated from? |
| 1:35.4 | Because there are certain denominations that are more excommunicatee than others. |
| 1:40.4 | And how many years were you a member in that type of church? |
| 1:44.0 | I attended an evangelical free church and I was a member for 15 years. |
| 1:50.0 | Okay. All right, can you tell us a little bit about what your church meant to you? |
| 1:54.8 | How were you involved? Did you have friends and family there as well? Like what was the |
| 1:59.3 | infrastructure in your life related to your church? |
| 2:06.0 | Well, I grew up in the church and I always attended a church depending on where I was living and I have moved a little bit in my adult life |
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