Thank you, @ArchbishopFoley . The team at @ACNAtoo is looking forward to walking with you and working with you as you lead @The_ACNA into the light so we can be a safe, healthy, & mature denomination.
https://twitter.com/ArchbishopFoley/status/1415840560816984069
We are grateful to see this shift in public tone from the Province & a willingness to talk publicly and pastorally.
This is what we need from you along with significant changes in policy & culture in @The_ACNA so this never happens again.
This is what we need from you along with significant changes in policy & culture in @The_ACNA so this never happens again.
No one wanted to have to expose these things on social media.
No one wanted to have to take an aggressive social media strategy to place the shame that @StewartRuch & @MidwestAnglican were placing on survivors & place it back on the leaders that shamefully failed them.
No one wanted to have to take an aggressive social media strategy to place the shame that @StewartRuch & @MidwestAnglican were placing on survivors & place it back on the leaders that shamefully failed them.
All of this could have been dealt with quietly a long time ago before it had piled up.
We have a cultural problem in @The_ACNA. Nobody meant for this to happen, but it has.
It has to change. There is no putting a bandaid on this.
We have a cultural problem in @The_ACNA. Nobody meant for this to happen, but it has.
It has to change. There is no putting a bandaid on this.
There will be no more professions of sentimental sincerity without the actions to back it up.
There will be no more protecting the self-image of leaders who fail to protect the image of God present in the most vulnerable members of their flock.
There will be no more protecting the self-image of leaders who fail to protect the image of God present in the most vulnerable members of their flock.
We don't want to tell the truth about how bad all of this is, but we will if we have to because our leaders are not candidly, openly, and pastorally telling the truth.
We will because we are not willing to scandalize the next generation by leaving the public sins of the church unconfessed & addressed with only a surface level of accountability & reform.
People that are leaving the church because they love the truth are much more worth keeping than people that love darkness & are willing to let things hide in the dark rather than be transformed by the light of Christ.
We take no pleasure in having to be the ones that confess the sins of the truth and hold her accountable.
We want our leaders to do that so we can trust them & respect them.
We want our leaders to do that so we can trust them & respect them.
If our leaders want us to stop criticizing @The_ACNA leadership publicly, they need to be the first to humble themselves, tell the truth, learn from those who know what they are talking about, & model walking in the light.
We won't protect your feelings because you haven't done what you need to do to protect your people. I don't believe for a moment that any of this was intentional, but I also don't believe that there has been sufficient commitment to prioritize these issues in the past.
All of this could have been prevented. We hope that you will take steps so that this will be prevented in the future.
We hope this grief that we believe you are feeling will be grief that leads to repentance.
We hope this grief that we believe you are feeling will be grief that leads to repentance.
We want to work with you and not against you. We want all of our leaders to continue to lead, but we want them to become leaders that are more well-rounded & demonstrate that they humbly listen to their people & care for the vulnerable.
This could be the thing that makes @The_ACNA into a place that people who love truth & who have left the church because it loved lies want to be.
This could be the thing that makes @The_ACNA into a denomination with the best pastoral care.
This could be the thing that makes @The_ACNA into a denomination with the best pastoral care.
This could be the thing that makes the @The_ACNA into a denomination with a reputation for healthy, wise, & emotionally mature pastors.
This could be the thing that makes the culture of @The_ACNA into one that helps people deal with big shame & be restored after they learn to restore what they have damaged or destroyed in those they have harmed.
This could be the thing that makes @The_ACNA look like Jesus.
People want Jesus. He's like no one else. We don't want anything less when we see Him.
People want Jesus. He's like no one else. We don't want anything less when we see Him.
Please choose that path for @The_ACNA , @ArchbishopFoley .
We want @The_ACNA to survive & thrive. We want the path of life & the good fruit that comes out of it to be your legacy.
We want @The_ACNA to survive & thrive. We want the path of life & the good fruit that comes out of it to be your legacy.
*Confess the sins of our church, rather.
Personified Truth is, presumably, very good at confessing her sins if she has any.
Personified Truth is, presumably, very good at confessing her sins if she has any.
Clarification here- The "your" & "you" in this isn't just @ArchbishopFoley - it's for all of our leaders that haven't prioritized safety & maturity & health.
They were doing other important things that we needed them to do, but we also needed some of them to be doing this work.
They were doing other important things that we needed them to do, but we also needed some of them to be doing this work.
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