{"id":15417,"date":"2020-04-03T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=15417"},"modified":"2020-04-03T03:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:03:38","slug":"considerations-for-addressing-abuse-in-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=15417","title":{"rendered":"Considerations for Addressing Abuse in Your Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: This week&rsquo;s mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog is based on the presentations at the 2019 BCC Summit on the topic of domestic abuse. In this final article, K&iuml;rsten Christianson discusses considerations for churches in addressing domestic abuse. In other contributions to the series, Brad Hambrick offers two visual aids to help us understand and talk more effectively about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2020\/04\/03\/considerations-for-addressing-abuse-in-your-church\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic abuse care in the church is not a cause or a reaction to what is going on in our culture. Caring for family members caught in the unrelenting cycle of abuse (what the Bible calls oppression) is simply one way that God&#8217;s people live out the gospel and reflect Jesus to each other and the world. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[192,421,955,727,718,708,1118,2098,1117],"class_list":["post-15417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-abuse","tag-domestic-violence","tag-local-church-ministry","tag-methodology","tag-pastoral-resources","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-physical-abuse","tag-violence","tag-violence-physical-abuse","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15419,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions\/15419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}