Putting My Stuff in the Past
Healing and Reconciliation
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The church, God’s house, is still the best place for us as a modern day kingdom building family. I must highly stress that God’s church is perfect because He made it but we as living individuals are fallible people and do make mistakes. The objective of this book is not to simply reveal the errors that we as clergy and laity fall into by hurting each other but to deal with the crucial issues in the room, not just continuing to patch up our old and fresh wounds but to find healing prescriptions to help both clergy and laity become more effective, healthy and kingdom minded disciples for this work called ministry. If we don’t consistently deal with the problems then the chronic problems of hurt, lack of healing and reconciliation will continue to gradually destroy us on all levels from the inside out. If you have been hurt and you still haven’t gotten past the pain of your past then there is no better time than right now to start putting your stuff in the past. “Stay Positive,” on the mark, get set, let’s go: 1. Admit to yourself and to God you need to begin a process of healing and reconciliation as a result of your hurt and pain. 2. Forgive yourself and the other person who inflicted the hurt and pain on you. (Leave it at the altar). 3. Then ask God to continue to help you to heal and reconcile taking one day at a time. I truly hope and pray that as a result of reading and working through “Putting My Stuff in the Past: Healing and Reconciliation Work Study Book” that you would have benefited in some way from each chapter, the various case studies and the self -growth evaluation questions. Since all of us will encounter various types of hurt and pain it is my desire to encourage us to “Stay Positive” and start a process of getting better so that at the right time you can put your stuff in the past having optimistic expectations. Optimistic Expectations – is having so much faith in God, already speaking victory into the atmosphere even though you haven’t seen the outcome as of yet.
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About the Book
This work study book is designed to help clergy and laity all over the world to find effective ways to deal with and eventually move beyond the hurt and pain, the stuff of their past through a positive process of healing and reconciliation before they find themselves as hurting people hurting other people. Everybody goes through something regardless of who they are. Therefore, we never know when people are going through their stuff. Nobody is exempt from pain and hurt. As we have heard many people say, “Church hurt is the worst hurt,” but in my opinion, “hurt is hurt wherever it occurs.” I would like to address church hurt, healing, and reconciliation both in the pulpit and in the pew focusing on the following: church hurt, the pastor and the pastor’s family, moving from one congregation to another, competition in the kingdom, rebuilding the trust, and people releasing people.
About the Author
He has been a pastor in African Methodist Episcopal Church for twenty-eight years. He is currently the pastor of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a mentor, leader, educator, reconciler, and a master encourager who has a heart for the people. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice with a minor in rehabilitative services, master degree of divinity in Christian education and doctor of ministry degree in leadership development and organization dynamics, with his dissertation focusing on healing and reconciliation in the twenty-first century. He enjoys family, preaching, traveling, and empowering positive transformation in the lives of all ages regardless of race, color, or creed. It is his goal to offer as much help as possible to people all the world who have been hurt, wounded, burned—both in the sacred and secular arenas of live—and provide effective ways to begin a process of healing and reconciliation so that those persons can start putting their stuff, hurt, and pain in the past. He is married to Kimberly Renee Huggins-Marshall. They are the proud parents of one son, Joshua James Huggins Marshall.