Janet’s Excommunication Story [267]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been told you are incorrigible? Or how about contumacious, which means stubbornly and willfully disobedient to authority? Janet’s church promised to help and protect her, but when she decided to set a boundary to protect herself by divorcing her abuser, they turned on her with this vicious name-calling.
Sort of like her abuser, come to think of it.
In this final episode of our excommunication series, Janet outlines her story of waking up to abuse, seeking help from her church, and receiving a proverbial beating in return. Let’s unmask these particular wolves in Janet’s story so that we can learn how to unmask others in our own lives and in the lives of the people we care about.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:21.1 | Welcome to episode 267 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we are doing our third and last interview in a series of episodes on the topic of ex-communication. |
| 0:35.0 | And so let's meet our third guest in our ex-communication series. |
| 0:38.7 | Her name is Janet. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome, Janet. |
| 0:41.8 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:43.6 | Thank you for giving a voice to those of us who have been through this. |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.1 | Well, I really appreciate you being willing to be vulnerable and share your story. I'm sure this was not easy |
| 0:55.5 | emotionally to go back and relive some of these things. But why don't we start |
| 1:01.5 | by having you tell us what denomination you were excommunicated from and how long were you a member or involved in that denomination? |
| 1:11.0 | So this was a very young reformed Baptist church. I want to say it probably just |
| 1:19.7 | started maybe in 2015 or 16. |
| 1:23.1 | One lead pastor, and then when we joined, |
| 1:28.0 | there was one elder in addition to that pastor, they called themselves the two elders. So very tiny |
| 1:38.1 | leadership and that was in 2019 so that was after this church had been established for several years. |
| 1:46.1 | We actually joined right before COVID, it was March of 2020, when we joined this church and so really we started off our membership doing |
| 1:58.6 | things online and social distancing. |
| 2:03.0 | And so the excommunication officially happened though in September of 2023. |
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