Johnny Enlow: "#ChurchMeToo Movement: A Prophetic Alert to the Body of Christ" - THE ELIJAH LIST

Johnny Enlow: "#ChurchMeToo Movement: A Prophetic Alert to the Body of Christ"

THE ELIJAH LIST Mar 27, 2018

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

I truly wish I did not have to send this prophetic word out to the Body of Christ.

I've prayed and looked for a way to not send it, hoping that it was not a true word.

But, unfortunately, I believe it is a true word to God's people.

In asking the Lord and others if it is too late for many to repent, the answer from the Lord was this, "No matter what has happened, it is NEVER TOO LATE TO REPENT. The sooner repentance happens, the less severe will be the consequences."

Especially for those who are contemplating the sin of sexual abuse – STOP NOW. Don't contemplate it! Don't start. No matter what you've done, STOP NOW. Repent and get out now!

The following is what God is saying through the prophetic voice of Johnny Enlow.

Johnny has proven himself to be quite accurate with his prophetic gift. Please take this seriously! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

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"#ChurchMeToo Movement: A Prophetic Alert to the Body of Christ"

Johnny Enlow, Santa Clarita, CA

The #metoo tsunami is now upon the Body of Christ and we are going to be exposed beyond anything we have previously experienced with past TV evangelist scandals.

In preparation, we need to be properly motivated towards a right response of agreement with what is ultimately a cleansing stream coming into the Body of Christ.

The day of covering up for sexual abuse by clergy and other spiritual leaders is now over. The day for using the doctrines of forgiveness as a free pass for sexual abuse in the Church are over. The days for multiple abuse reports against a spiritual leader being all chalked up to "warfare" or "lies" are over. This does not invite in a climate of rumor and accusation, but we do want to start properly facing real sexual abuse in the Church and ministry.

The Church is once again "under the curve" in the societal trend of justice. The #metoo phenomenon is removing significant powerful leaders in all of the 7 mountains of society, and the Body of Christ has to find a way to step out of being "the tail" in these processes and become "the head". While we have all shaken our heads at the Harvey Weinsteins who have demanded sexual favors in order to have one's career advanced, this very dynamic is way too common in prominent church and ministry circles, where promotions and demotions have been being made based on this very matter.

Be alerted pastors, ministers and spiritual leaders in God's House – that a new day of accountability is here and what you were previously able to cover up before, you will no longer be able to. While this new climate creates a risk for single false accusations against leaders to cause damage, that risk can no longer delay the cleansing stream from coming into the Church.

Billy Graham, was somehow able to implement enough safety precautions to ensure he never faced legitimate accusations over the course of many decades of visible ministry. It may not always be easy, but it is possible. Furthermore, with every level of increased "fame" another level of precaution has to be taken. That precaution is not to be the precaution of hiring vicious lawyers that many have chosen as their upgraded operation, but rather the embracing of true Christian character.

Here are truths to embrace:

IF YOU ARE A PASTOR/SPIRITUAL LEADER/OTHERWISE "ANOINTED"...

It is NEVER okay for you to engage in ANY extramarital sexual behavior PERIOD. Just because you can still feel "the anointing" after illicit sexual encounters, does not mean God has an exception for you. Samson was deceived by this very reality. He still had physical strength, though he was sleeping with Delilah, and so it says he did not even know when the Spirit of God had left him until it was way too late.

The original gift from God will always be on your life, but at some point the erosion of your character will cause your gift to fall off, as it were, and no longer be accepted. Many of you are in the "sleeping with Delilah but still feeling anointed" stage, but don't be deceived by it. There is always a consequence for "sleeping with Delilah" even if people are still being healed, delivered, getting saved or otherwise ministered to.

IF YOU ARE A VICTIM OF PASTOR/MINISTER SEXUAL ABUSE...

Read the above statement for the pastors/ministers. It is NEVER okay. They are not excused because of some level of high anointing or importance. It is not okay in White churches. It is not okay in Black churches. It is not okay in Hispanic churches. It is not okay in African churches. It is not okay in South American churches, etc. If you are presently in a church setting where you are experiencing this abuse, LEAVE! You do not need to pray about it.

THEN contact a ministry that can then help you. Presently, I would recommend a ministry named GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment) that was founded by a grandson of Billy Graham named Boz Tchividjian. They will be friends and give you a path of recovery and perhaps even help chart justice.

IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF A CHURCH WHERE YOUR LEADERS HAVE BEEN EXPOSED...

Read the above statement for pastors/ministers. It is NEVER okay. GOD HAS NO EXTRAMARITAL EXCEPTIONS FOR "ANOINTED LEADERS"! It does not mean that there is no forgiveness for pastors for extramarital sexual sins, but the restoration process is only available for one truly walking in the light.

Honesty, confession and a legitimate restoration process must take place. The larger the ministry the greater its PR/damage control engine will be, with some understanding that false abuse reports will also happen. Be a lover of the truth and use your discernment. Understand that where the law has been violated, its consequences must be faced.

HOW DO I REPENT IF I AM OR HAVE BEEN INVOLVED?

There may be some of you who are either the ministers themselves or involved with the ministers in some way, and you desire to come clean and repent, but are not sure even what path to take. First of all, I applaud your resolve to come into the light and by doing so, exposing yourself to a great grace of God. If there is not a clear path you know to pursue, I would still recommend you contacting the GRACE ministry I mentioned above, and they will be able to help you chart your course. No matter what it does to your reputation, your soul will be in a better place. Furthermore, there is wisdom on how to protect innocent family members, and those with experience can help navigate through that.

CONCLUSION

The Church is already made up of an estimated 20% victims of some kind of sexual abuse. Let's lead the way in making it the safest place possible by having the most advanced tools of transparency and a proper response to sexual abuse. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

Johnny Enlow
Johnny and Elizabeth
Email: Contact@JohnnyandElizabeth.com
Website: www.JohnnyandElizabeth.com

Johnny Enlow is a social reformer, international speaker, spiritual mentor, and author of The Seven Mountain Prophecy, The Seven Mountain Mantle, and Rainbow God. He and his wife Elizabeth are focused on awakening individuals to their call to provide practical solutions from the heart of God for every problem in society – until the real God of all of life is displayed in the seven primary areas of culture in all nations: Media, Arts and Entertainment, Government, Family, Religion, Economy, and Education.

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We Are All the Duggars

CHAD BIRD, DANIEL EMERY PRICE  LIBERATE/CHARISMA NEWS



photo credit: Duggar Family Blog


Leo Tolstoy famously wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The problem is that I’ve yet to meet a family that fits into Tolstoy’s tidy categories of “happy” and “unhappy.” The reality is far messier. Put tears and laughter, love and betrayal, fights and hugs into a blender and out will come a family. Even in homes where the walls are decorated with portraits of grinning moms and dads and kids, there’s usually a closet door that’s kept shut. Last week we were reminded of that, when the media flung open that door in the Duggar family home. And the skeletons came spilling out.

Josh Duggar, now twenty seven, the oldest son in TLC’s hit show, “19 Kids and Counting,” sexually abused five underage girls—four of them his sisters—when he was in his early teens. On the family’s Facebook page, Josh, his wife, and his parents have acknowledged this, as well as described how they addressed the abuse a dozen years ago when it occurred. Josh, who had been a lobbyist in Washington D.C. for the Family Research Council, has since resigned his position. And TLC will not be airing any episodes of “19 Kids and Counting” for the foreseeable future.

What happened within this family is many things—tragic and abusive, shameful and selfish, destructive and deceptive. It is all manner of evil, no matter how you look it. But there is one thing that it is surely not: it is not surprising. Not in the least. The only ones stunned by this revelation of abuse are most likely those who assume that the Duggar family image on their reality show does, in fact, accurately reflect reality. But there is no reason why this family’s secret should be shocking, especially to the Christian. The Duggars are not the pristine, ideal family that their television show portrays them as being. They never have been, nor will they ever be. Nor is any family. They are parents, sons, and daughters who have a civil war raging within each of them. It just so happens that Josh’s particular battles, and the pain he inflicted upon others as a result, have taken center stage.

Consider these words: “I don’t understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” These are the words of Paul, the one we’ve dubbed Saint Paul. He frankly admits that he’s anything but a model of moral perfection. “I do the very thing I hate,” he admits. He’s got a civil war raging inside him, too. He’s fully sinful in himself and fully righteous in Jesus Christ, all at the same time. He is what the Reformers called simul justus et peccator (simultaneously saint and sinner). What Paul’s particular struggles were, what those things he hated were, he doesn’t say. He doesn’t have to. He’s simply upfront about his condition—the fallen, curved-in-on-itself human condition.

As it was with Paul, so it is with the Duggars, and so it is with every Christian: each of us lugs around an old corrupt nature that we won’t shed this side of the grave. Of course, that nature rears its ugly head in different ways with each person, sometimes in ways that must be addressed with spiritual as well as psychological help. With Josh, sadly, it was through sexual abuse; with others it’s through addictions and greed and hate and selfishness of every kind. But one thing is certain: not just Josh but all of us harbor our demons. And the sinful nature within us is daily clawing its way out to manifest itself in ways great and small, public and private. Only liars and fools pretend otherwise.

The sooner we as individual Christians, as Christian families, and as churches present ourselves to the world that way, the better. Believers face more than petty allurements, make more than “mistakes.” We fail and fall in mega ways.

Dear world, do you struggle with alcohol or drug abuse? So do we believers.
Dear world, has your family been wounded by infidelities? So have ours.
Dear world, have your children hurt each other through sexual abuse? Yes, ours too.

Dear world, do your families members commit crimes and end up in prison? Ours too.

Dear world, do you have a closet full of skeletons? So do we Christians.

The greatest witness that Christians can present to the world is not their own morality, their ideal family, or their dream marriage, but their weaknesses and sins and failures, all of which have been atoned for by the crucified and resurrected Jesus. Our witness is never, “Look at how well we’re doing at being good,” but always, “Look at the good Savior who died for our evils.”

Here’s what happens inside the closed doors of Christian families: sinners live together in very close proximity. And you know what that means. Husbands who are righteous in Christ, but sinful in themselves, do and say mean and hurtful things to their wives. Wives who are righteous in Christ, but sinful in themselves, do and say mean and hurtful things to their husbands. Christian children mess up big time, rebel, and yes, sometimes sexually abuse others. We do terrible things. Tempers flare, eyes lust, tongues yell. In other words, sinners act the way sinners are. We are no better than the world is. Nor should we claim to be. We are far from perfect. We are by nature sinful and unclean. And because of that, we return, again and again, to the blood Christ shed that atones for our sins—the same blood, dear world, that has atoned for yours as well.

Christians families do not live on the mountaintop of morality but at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ. In his shadow is shelter from the burning sun of iniquity. Whatever repercussions Josh may experience from what he’s done, he will find at the foot of the cross a God who does not punish him, but says, “I love you. I have forgiven you. My blood has made you whiter than snow.” If this seems scandalous, then you’re beginning to understand the grace of Christ. Christ’s love is a scandalous gift. He didn’t die for the not-so-sinful portion of humanity. He was crucified for all. He died for sexual abusers, murderers, gossips, hatemongers, adulterers, pornographers, and you—whoever you are, whatever skeletons may be piled in your family closet.

But there’s still more that Jesus did. Christ took upon himself the shame that others inflict upon innocent victims. He lived and died and rose again for the girls that Josh abused. The battered wife, the rape victim, the child whose bedtime lullaby was the screams of a drunk father—these who have been physically, emotionally, and psychologically harmed by the evils of others, they too find peace and wholeness in the battle-torn, broken body of the Son of God. He didn’t just die to forgive us for the wrongs we do, but to provide us with healing from the wrongs others do to us. For in Christ, the Spirit puts us into communion with a restoring God. He gives us the peace that passes understanding. Not the evil that others have done to us, but the good Christ has done for us, is what defines who we are. We are God’s sons and daughters. We are adopted into the family of a Father whose greatest joy is loving and embracing us as the dearest things in all creation to him.

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have said, “We pray that as people watch our lives they see that we are not a perfect family.” We would echo that prayer, and add to it. I would pray that as people watch their lives—and as they watch the life of my family as well—they would see families that boast only of their weaknesses, that do not deny their flaws, and that find peace and healing only in Jesus Christ.

We are all the Duggars. We are all dysfunctional sinners living in flawed families upheld by grace. There is only one who is perfect, the one who became our sin, that in him we might become the righteousness of God. And in his wounds, bleeding with love, all of us find healing.