Piper gives some helpful and provocative comments concerning the abused. Here is an excerpt from the story.
This question was asked of me at a Q&A session at the north campus of my own church last year. It was was an evening for asking questions of Pastor John, and this very one came up.
I began to answer it, and a woman raised her hand—a woman whose wedding I did twenty seven years ago (one of the first weddings I ever did at this church) and who is still in the church—and she asked if she could make a comment.
She came to the microphone and said that though she wouldn’t have spoken up years ago, she has worked through it far enough now. And she described her abuse for several years as a child. She said that she has struggled with this for most of her fifty or so years, and that at this point she can see things that she could not have known, loved, or experienced of God (or ministered to others) had this not happened to her. And she is finally, at this point in her life, able to thank God for the experience.
Here is the entire post. I would love your thoughts.
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