Mumford & Sons – Come, Thou Fount
One of my favorite bands (Mumford & Sons) playing one of my favorite hymns (Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing). Enjoy.
The Summons
For chapel this month, we were asked to bring songs that meant a lot to us or featured in our journey somehow. I chose “The Summons,” an old Scottish hymn, written by … I hadn’t heard of this song until about four or five years ago, when my buddy James came into the room gushing …
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Over the dozen years I've been in pastoral ministry, one of the biggest reasons that I've encountered for folks' disillusionment with God and faith and Jesus and Christianity is the chasm between what Jesus was like and what his followers — and especially those who claim to speak for him — are like.
It is hypocrisy, it is spiritual abuse, it is a lack of integrity, it is misuse of power and platform, it is exclusion and marginalization and oppression. These sins can so undercut the witness and words of Christians that it is no wonder people question whether Jesus actually makes any positive difference, whether Jesus is actually worth following.
A couple of weeks ago, I addressed this in a sermon on the Parable of the Tenants (Mark 12:1-12), because that is what Jesus was addressing — those who claim to speak for God but do what God would not do: engage in religious exclusion, economic oppression, and spiritual abuse.
It led me to share, for the first time in public, my own experience with spiritual abuse.
I hope this offers some healing for those in need.
Read more: https://www.justinbfung.com/2023/02/06/spiritual-abuse-and-starting-to-heal/
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