Thread by @MuiRebekah

It's a very valid feeling to feel lost in the Christian world looking at the harm in just about every denomination or group.

Beware of those who think that their group is instantly safe/inherently better.

But I also think there are healthy people and healthy versions of every kind of Christianity there is. Genuine advocates who take a strong stand against abuse, for example.

Sometimes what we need is a community of people we know we can trust & walk with.

I do believe that it is God's work exposing sin in the church. Those who attack whistle blowers are resisting the conviction of God.

I've seen a lot of #acnatoo #sbctoo #pcatoo & #churchtoo on Christian Twitter & have been encouraged by every kind of Christian who's speaking up.

"You who killed the prophets"...

Thinking back to the abolitionist & civil rights eras, it stings of hypocrisy that the people on the margins who went against the status quo/hit walls become celebrated & used to legitimize the larger, complicit, group.

You are rejected while you speak up, and then when the status quo is forced to change, the outlier becomes the hero.

But it does signal a shift that can and is likely to come re: sexual abuse & rape culture in the church.