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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A Word to Self-Righteous Christians Attacking Josh Duggar - Michael Brown

A Word to Self-Righteous Christians Attacking Josh Duggar

 5/28/2015 MICHAEL BROWN  charisma magazine

Though Josh Duggar did wicked things, that doesn't mean God did not transform his life. (Reuters)

I have been terribly grieved by some "Christian" responses to Josh Duggar, as if there are some sins God cannot forgive or some people that He cannot transform. Such an attitude betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of the gospel of grace and is actually a slap in the face of the Savior.

When I shared some redemptive thoughts about Josh's situation earlier in the week, I did not for a moment minimize the gravity of his acts. Specifically, I wrote that "he did sin grievously"; I put his actions in the category of "wicked things" that some of us did as teenagers; I stated that, "There's no excuse for sin, so own up to it"; I referred to Josh committing "serious sexual sin"; and I said "there are consequences to our actions" but that God can redeem, also stressing the importance of the church helping the victims of abuse.

And although I have never been the victim of sexual abuse, I have listened to the stories of abuse victims for years, often devastated by what they shared.

I remember reaching out to a blind, facially disfigured teenage girl at a church service one night. She told me that her problems began when she was sexually abused as girl, after which the pain was so great she got into drugs, finally making a death pact with her boyfriend and another friend. The other friend would shoot each of them in the head and, hopefully, not get caught.

Tragically, her boyfriend died as a result of his wounds, the other boy did go to jail for his actions, but instead of dying, she was blinded.

I thought to myself, "What kind of divine judgment awaits the man who abused her if he does not repent and find mercy before that day?"

A number of our ministry school grads work tirelessly in several nations to combat human trafficking, and I support their work however I can. They tell me in detail about the trauma experienced by these kids and teens sold into sex slavery, with full recovery being extremely difficult and rare (if they even manage to survive and are rescued).

In no way would I dream of minimizing the sin of a sex offender, even a younger one like Josh was, but I absolutely believing in maximizing the grace of God, who delights in saving the worst of sinners.

That's what Paul wrote in 1 Timothy, using himself as an example. He explained that "I was previously a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insolent man. But I was shown mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. The grace of our Lord overflowed with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, first, Jesus Christ might show all patience, as an example to those who were to believe in Him for eternal life" (1 Tim. 1:13-16).

Sadly, professing Christians have written to me, assuring me that God could never forgive Josh for what he did or that "once a molester, always a molester." And they also assure me that they understand grace and believe in the power of the gospel.

Nonsense.

Responses like theirs make me wonder if they have ever experienced God's mercy themselves.

The fact is, the very best of us are worthless wretches outside of His grace, and on the holiest day of our lives, in ourselves, we are utterly depraved in light of God's perfect brightness.

If you have ever come under deep conviction of sin, either as a sinner or a saint (meaning, as a nonbeliever or as a believer), you know what I'm talking about.

Suddenly, your flesh is revealed, as happened to the prophet Isaiah when he encountered the Lord, crying out, "Woe is me! For I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts" (Is. 6:5)

Suddenly, you become aware of the depth of your guilt and depravity, of the impurity of your motives, of the corruption of your actions, of your selfishness or greed or envy or lust or hatred or pride or rebellion or bitterness—or all of the above.

You feel as if the worst hell is too good for you, and you are completely overwhelmed when you realize that not only is God willing to forgive you, but that Jesus died for you and paid for every one of those sins, pronouncing you righteous through faith and bringing you into His family as a fellow child of the Father.

In the words of John Newton, the former slave trader, guilty of committing atrocities against fellow human beings, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me."

I know extraordinary men of God today who used to be in involved in terrorist activities or who were once sexually depraved or consumed by hate, and they are some of the saintliest people on the planet. And all of us, no matter how we lived our lives, were sinners in need of salvation and mercy.

Those who have been shown mercy should lead the way in showing mercy; those who have been forgiven should lead the way in forgiving others; those who have been transformed should be the first to believe for the transformation of others.

We should exercise wisdom when it comes to putting certain people in certain positions (for example, no matter how transformed a convicted former child molester might be, I would never put that person in the church's children's ministry, for many obvious reasons), but we should absolutely believe in the power of God to forgive the worst of sinners and trust the power of the blood of Jesus to make us truly clean.

I really do fear for those who do not recognize the depth of their own sin in light of God's holiness and who do not understand the principle that "he who has shown no mercy will have judgment without mercy, for mercy triumphs over judgment" (Jacob [James] 2:13).

May we be ambassadors of the transforming mercy of God, and may we glory in the life-transforming power of the gospel.

That's what the cross is all about.

Michael Brown is the author of 25 books, including Can You Be Gay and Christian? and host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show "The Line of Fire." He is also president of FIRE School of Ministry and director of the Coalition of Conscience. 

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