{"id":10129,"date":"2023-11-22T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/?p=10129"},"modified":"2023-11-29T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:45:46","slug":"church-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/2023\/11\/22\/church-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natalie Runion and 'Church Hurt'<\/h3>\n
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\u201cNever tell God you\u2019ll never do something because He\u2019ll have you never nevering like you\u2019ve nevered before,\u201d Natalie joked when discussing her Raised to Stay journey.<\/p>\n

\n\"\"<\/a>Natalie Runion, guest speaker at the 2023 Women\u2019s Leadership Gathering in Black Mountain, NC, is a wife, mother, pastor, and author of Raised to Stay: Persevering in Ministry When You Have a Million Reasons to Walk Away.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the title of her debut book reveals, ministry is not easy. It is exhausting and overwhelming, while also being inspiring and encouraging. Those who attended the Women\u2019s Leadership Gathering were honored to have her speak hope and wisdom into them.<\/p>\n

Starting as a social media outlet, Raised to Stay has grown exponentially; one reason being that Natalie shares her story authentically and compassionately. While respectful, Natalie addresses the hardship of ministry: the hurt she and many others experience and the situations endured by leaders and laity alike while also encouraging the hope and holy purpose found in ministry, especially for women.<\/p>\n

Topics ranged from church hurt and competition to Rahab and hope for the future.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many have walked away from Jesus because of what people have done to them, because of what the church has done to them. Today's society does not always see that God and His Kingdom are not connected to a physical building. If a church member hurt them in some way or if they were not \u2018good enough\u2019, then they take it that God has hurt them too, but we know this is not true.<\/p>\n

As women in ministry, it is so important to bridge that gap between flesh and spirit: to meet people where they are instead of taking offense if someone does not look, dress, or act the way they are expected to within a church building.<\/p>\n

The other side of this is that women are often seen as a main reason for church hurt because of competition, reputation, gossip, and even fear. Current leaders should not be afraid of the new generation \u201creplacing\u201d them. Instead, women need to be authentic, vulnerable, and pour into everyone in their community, especially young women.<\/p>\n

Revival cannot happen without repentance. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I hurt you\u201d is needed if leaders want to bring people back to Christ and back to church. Love them where they are and as they are, and if this continues, the church will become as it was intended to be as seen in the Book of Acts.<\/p>\n

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Whitney Davis is a wife, mom, encourager, and visionary. She is a South Carolina girl who now calls North Carolina home. She worked for 12 years as a Labor & Delivery and Mother\/Baby nurse before transitioning to full-time ministry to women. Whitney grew up in the IPHC and her husband, Brad, has been an IPHC minister for over 20 years. They have a blended family of five children- Carmen, Evelyn, Sullivan, Ellington, and Deacon.<\/p>\n

Whitney has a passion for helping women on the journey of becoming more like Jesus. She desires for Women\u2019s Ministries to be the arm of the church that is uniquely positioned to equip women for the work of discipleship.<\/p>\n

Whitney loves having coffee with friends, reading, traveling, and spending time with her family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":10130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,171,37],"tags":[1518,1404,16,1031,1350,1057,925,69,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-10129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discipleship-ministries","8":"category-general","9":"category-leadership-2","10":"category-womens-ministries","11":"tag-1518","12":"tag-article","13":"tag-discipleship","14":"tag-discipleship-ministries","15":"tag-iphc-women","16":"tag-iphc-womens-ministries","17":"tag-whitney-davis","18":"tag-women","19":"tag-womens-ministries-2","20":"entry"},"title_es":"","content_es":"","author_name":"Kelleigh Knight-Whitten","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/WMLG-week-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T9u2-2Dn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}