JWM

When a person is spiritually assaulted or destroyed through disunity or unresolved differences in a Christian community this almost always negatively effects  the children also. To parents that feel the Church community or leadership has failed them, it is no different then attempting to injure or destroy their children also. One may be able to forgive by Gods healing hand an assault that spiritually injures or destroys a child's faith in the Christian community but it will be the hardest thing a parent will ever have to do to see their child lost without a brother or sister trying somehow to make a difference.

A believer would like to think that his spiritual family the Church community would be there for their children in a much greater degree then one's own natural family but that is not so in most circumstances. Why is the Church with all the faith, love and devotion to Christ that the community seems to promote in public relations or soul winning unable to consider the deepest concerns of parents in the Church community, the children?

Hypocrisy in church leadership is all children sometimes see. Children hear what is said and what is preached but if there are no real visible proof of this Faith, Life and Love that the community promotes then it has a result in a child's mind similar to one who after many confirmations comes to know and understand there is no real Santa Claus just something adults say and pretend to believe.

Many people are not able to reach their children and they cannot depend on the Church Community to help them reach their children because the Community often times has been the source of the neglect, confusion or abandonment. Abandonment of a dependant child in our society carries jail time in some cases and usually Child Protective Services will investigate the parents and the home to see if the children are being provided for properly or can be cared for properly by the parents.

Is the non-Christian community more in tune with caring for God's children then those who claim to be spiritually attuned to Christ? It should break a spirit filled person's heart to see anyone in the Church Community hurt or isolated without someone in the community lifting a finger to try to intervene or bring resolve. Some Christian Communities have cursed their own future and their children's future through hypocrisy. When the love or Law of the non-Christian world exceeds and protects more then the Law of Love in the Christian Community it has failed itself and especially it's future the children that should have been tomorrow's witnesses of Christ in our Christian Community.

Small children may not know the ways of the world yet and may not yet be educated to the degree of adults but even the smallest child has no problem interpreting love and knowing the feeling of being loved and wanted. Those that practice hypocrisy and a double standard of acceptance in the Church are only fooling themselves. God knows the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Christ said, "Suffer not the little children to come unto me." Christ rebuked those who tried to turn the children away. Christ will do no less to those that aid in destroying or abandonment of his children today. Let the love of Christ in the Christian Community become a way of life instead of a cliché. If tragedy comes upon parents of children in your Church are the children going to be nurtured and  ministered to spiritually by the Church Community so they remain a central part of the community or or will they be forgotten leaving that responsibility to the Social workers and Child Protection Services?

Many tragedies happen isolation spiritually kills and aborts more of God's children then physical abortion. Ministries and Communities who endorse this type of behavior are as guilty and bloody as the doctors who kill the unborn fetus!

Christ was a true spiritual leader filled with Truth and Love for the lost. By Christ's example we see that he never turned away the sheep nor his enemies. Christ was always approachable by everyone. This would be a sign of those truly called to lead the Christian Community through Christ's Spirit. A leader can only lead and improve when they stop placing the blame on others, stop building walls of division and choose to repair or open the path to unity rather then destroying the path.

I've personally seen the Spirit move over the most impoverished communities in regard to Truth. God strives with man and his community to bring us into deeper truths. Just because God hasn't quenched the Spirit in Ministries that are failing their communities does not mean that he has put his approval on the Ministries conduct and community as a whole!