I wrote a song that represents someone with a church hurt who had to run into the arms of Jesus to be healed in order to be restored again. I have not left the church. I love Jesus and the people of God. He is my Lord and Savior.

This song has been my experience with certain congregations – not all. I’ve also had experience being a member of a church with a loving congregation. The body of Christ needs to LISTEN and LOVE people they have hurt so they feel safe within the family of God. We must LISTEN, instead of IGNORING, JUDGING, and getting OFFENDED.

We stifle people’s emotions and tell them not to feel- just serve. Yet Jesus wept when Lazarus died. Emotions are OK. They help us process what we are going through and heal. BEATING someone who has been traumatized back into “SUBMISSION” and “SERVING” without healing is ABUSIVE.

Calling them bitter is just as bad. It is gaslighting and fragments the soul. The church needs deliverance from the religious spirit, which kills innocent souls. Victims of church hurt are not always bitter, but they are always broken … we must be able to discern the difference.

Psalm 137:3, AMP For there they who took us captive demanded of us a song with words, And our tormentors [who made a mockery of us demanded] amusement, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”