When Home Hurts: A Guide for Responding Wisely to Domestic Abuse in Your Church
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
A pastoral guide to dealing wisely with domestic abuse in the local church.
This book is intended to equip pastors, church leaders and church members to respond with the heart of God to situations of domestic abuse that occur in their local church. Prioritising the safety of the victim at all times, Jeremy Pierre and Greg Wilson seek to help you be the kind of church leader, church member, friend, parent, sibling, or neighbor who responds wisely. We want the church to be a new normal for those grown accustomed to abuse. A home that doesn’t hurt those inside, but instead welcomes them into the tender care of the Lord.
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- Intends to equip pastors, church leaders and church members.
- Guides wisely with domestic abuse in the local church.
- Seeks to help you be the kind of church leader and respond wisely.
When Home Hurts is packed with clarifying biblical insights and concrete action steps for church leaders who encounter Domestic Abuse. Tremendous wisdom and experience have gone into the shepherding plans and assessment tools found in this book. This makes it an essential and invaluable guide that every church should have at the ready.
--Darby Strickland , Author of ‘Is it Abuse? A Biblical Guide to Identifying Domestic Abuse and Helping Victims’ & Faculty member, CCEF
Pastors will love the theological nuance and practical ways the authors lay out how to have tough conversations with victims, abusers and congregants. Counselors will appreciate the prioritizing of safety planning and trauma work with victims as well as the fresh insights of how to handle the passive resistance of the abuser.
--"Leslie Vernick , International speaker, relationship coach and author of ‘The Emotionally Destructive Relationship’ and ‘The Emotionally Destructive Marriage’
An accessible and practical handbook for the church and her people. When Home Hurts is written with care, attention to even the most minute detail, and a dedication to seeing the whole body built up and flourishing. A needed work for these times
--Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Author of ‘Handle With Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry’
- Title: When Home Hurts: A Guide for Responding Wisely to Domestic Abuse in Your Church
- Authors: Jeremy Pierre, Greg Wilson
- Publisher: Christian Focus
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 279
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Abused women Pastoral counseling of; Church work with abused men; Church work with abused women; Counseling pastoral; Offenses against the person; Pastoral counseling; Pierre, Jeremy, 1979-; Psychological abuse; Church work with abusive men; Church work with abusive women
- ISBNs: 9781527108196, 1527108198
- Resource ID: LLS:WHNHMHRTYRCHRCH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-09T17:43:37Z