The latest news within the FALC, is that the Chairperson of the Zion church was caught with his pants down so to speak…which to me is a huge red flag waving once again above the steeple.
How many flags need to be waved before the people in the pews will see that this behavior isn't isolated to a person, that it is an affect of abuse itself?
Who will see this as a sign pointing to the contents of the family and not try and keep it as rogue behavior? He is displaying the affects of abuse.
How will this affect or not affect the members of the church?
Who will begin to unhook the mantle of 'purity' and see that beneath the veil lies reality?
I see him as a confused adult child. I see him as the natural progression of unhealed sexual abuse. It isn't just a bad choice…of doing the wrong thing in the wrong place, it is a symptom of a much bigger problem.
To isolate him and focus on the act and not see the pathway that led him there is to miss the whole picture.
His family tree is a new tree in the forrest of names that I have. Another name, another family, another section of the church where the virus of abuse has spread…
The hope section grows smaller, that this isn't the norm within the church.