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Equipping Church Leaders To Minister To Abused And Oppressed People, Marion Winifred Duncan
Equipping Church Leaders To Minister To Abused And Oppressed People, Marion Winifred Duncan
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Problem
Miles (2011) maintains that no church community is "immune" to situations of abuse, "yet" he said, "pastors still receive very little training in this area" (p. x). As a result, many victims of abuse are seen to experience secondary victimization on top of the trauma that brought them to their church for help in the first place. This secondary victimization has been caused by the utilization of simplistic scriptural solutions to complex life situations. These solutions are well known in the churches and commonly used, having been handed down from generation to generation. The pastors who use them are …