The Church Hurt Me

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Statistically, the best thing for your marriage is being a part of the church but many people have been hurt by people in the church. Walk with us through the healing of church hurt. The church is a family, God's family, but every family has its issues. Go deeper with Grace's Win Your War Study Guide. TEXT MOREGRACE to 31996 and take what you’ve heard and start putting it to practical use with questions for personal reflection and discussions for you and your spouse. Faithful Counseling is a solution for people seeking traditional mental health counseling who would prefer hearing from the perspective of a Christian. Get 10% off your first month as a listener of the Real Marriage podcast. Go to getfaithful.com/realmarriage and join the over 500,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Find more from Mark and Grace at xomarriage.com/realmarriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As you read the New Testament, just realize that the church has always been a mess.
0:06.9	And family is always a mess.
0:10.1	And church is a family, so it's always a mess.
0:12.9	Church isn't God, and leaders aren't God.
0:17.4	God is good, and church and leaders are in process and oftentimes in amongst the sheep and the
0:26.4	shepherd are lots of wool. Yeah and if you go into a church and you see the Bible being taught and people's
0:32.8	lives actually changing because they're working on following Jesus and healing and ministering to others
0:40.9	in the process, that's a healthy church. Like you said, we're a mess. Individually we're a mess.
0:46.2	We walk in through the church doors. That doesn't mean all of a sudden a switch goes off and we're
0:50.4	no longer a mess. It means we bring our mess in, but that we bring it to the Lord where he can help heal us.
0:56.5	And if you go into a church and you see that happening, the healing is taking place, that's a great place to be.
1:03.5	Well, howdy y'all?
1:04.5	This is the Real Marriage Podcast with Mark and Grace Driscoll.
1:08.7	Our story is not perfect.
1:10.5	Our marriage is not perfect, but thankfully our God is perfect.
1:15.8	Well, hello, everyone.
1:16.7	Welcome back to the Real Marriage Podcast.
1:19.5	We are going to be talking about a topic that sadly many can relate to.
1:24.2	We as Christians have a relationship with Jesus, but we also are asked to have a relationship
1:29.7	with his community called the church, his family called the church. And a lot of us may have
1:36.9	church hurt that keeps us from going to church or causes anxiety or fears of what that can look like.
1:47.5	So for me, as a pastor's daughter, I grew up in the church from birth and my dad pastored for over 44 years. He's currently enjoying a relationship
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