God Loves Abused Women Too

Dr. Norma Barnett

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A book for women, churches and the man who wants to be enlightened.

Foreword

This book is presented to raise the awareness of the hard shocking reality of control and power that women face in our evasive society. This book will explore statistical, social, theoretical and Biblical viewpoints of sexual and physical violence in the family.

Researchers are searching for reasons why men abuse their partners. These reasons are found in the systems that interact with the family such as low income, unemployment, and pre-existing abusive conditions within the family of origin and the like. Psychologists are investigating why so many young adolescent boys are violent at such an early age and why so many young girls are suffering from low self-esteem and diseases surrounding this concept.

Physical abuse/violent behavior is a social dilemma within the context of the family and affects every member of society in one way or another. Family abuse is not assigned to one sector or status of society, and is not restricted to age, gender, or color. The rich, poor, educated, uneducated, every age bracket, gender and color have experienced some form of abuse as documented in research. Statistics have demonstrated to the world and the church the need for change.

Is the church aware of abusiveness within their confines? This book is written to bring about a new level of consciousness in the church and to provide a mechanism to collaborate and facilitate the change within the communities. True collaboration between the church and the community can only occur if a person can rise to a new level of spiritual healing and receive therapeutic counseling at the same time. It is important that the church is cognizant of the characteristics of the abused and abuser’s behavior. I am hoping that this book will facilitate a new move giving direction to the church toward meeting the needs of the abused woman.

There are pastors, ministers, missionaries and other clergy that can see the potential in the victim of abuse, and would like to open up the church even though the abused woman’s way of thinking has caused her to struggle through circumstances. The church does not only want to use "spiritual deliverance" as a band aid for emotional scars but should provide long term counseling and guidance working through the process of healing.

Within this book there are ways provided for counseling, methods and modalities for treatment of the abused woman and specifically what the church, and clergy as a whole can do to meet this criteria.

The hope then lies in the church as being a viable institution that can offer hope and rebuilding of fractured relationships. The answer lies in unlocking the chains of fear, doubt, hopelessness, guilt, shame, scars, oppression, depression, suicide and abandonment for every young girl and woman. Where did these scars come from? How long have they been living like this? What do they remember from their youth? These are some of the questions among a host of others that the church as an institution of help and love can help to unlock with the production of a new set of "keys".