Thread by @alethia24689

Church leaders: this is 💯 how it comes across when you refuse to listen to survivors, advocates & others who challenge your chosen response path. Don’t like the implication? Choose humility. Listen to, learn from, & respond to what your critics are saying. #churchtoo #acnatoo

If there is another reason @The_ACNA continues to ignore public critiques, resignations & stories of injury (while muffling social media), I’d love to hear it. B/c otherwise it looks like abandoning the injured b/c making repairs would require leaders to admit mistakes & change.

I will never understand how any spiritual leader thinks simply *not replying* to emails, phone calls, public letters of resignation, survivors begging for response is a legitimate pastoral/professional option.

The people under spiritual care deserve better than the silent treatment for daring to challenge powerful leaders. And there is no excuse for being unaware of your power & how intimidating it is for people to question spiritual leaders.

“As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered & has become food for all the wild animals, & ***because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,*** therefore, you…

…shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves…

…I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.” Ezekiel 34 Survivors, advocates, critics are not the enemies of @The_ACNA. We, too, are part of your flock & have been left abandoned & vulnerable.