Sometimes the TRUTH HURTS!
There is so much CHURCH HURT in this world. The church is filled with God's children who have not matured in their faith. They are growing but they have not arrived at the fullness of God living inside them. So, some of that hurt comes straight from people being people, needing GRACE & MERCY. I would also say some of the "church hurt" comes from people speaking the TRUTH. It was true even with JESUS . People became offended easily today just was they were in the first century. "Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and severe famine devastated the land. Yet, Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner -- a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon. And many in Israel had leprosy in teh time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian. When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious. Jumping up, the mobbed h...
