Escaping the Concentration Camp of Churchianity

Escaping the Concentration Camp of Churchianity

By: Susan McKenzie

Land mines everywhere, among the religious circles…

It's like trying to escape from a concentration camp.

Once you get out the church doors there is so much need of rest and recovery,

But where do you go to rest??

Who will help you to recover??

When you've been in survival mode for a long time, it changes you.

It isolates you.

The world goes on without you, and you no longer recognize the way you used to be,

the way you used to fit in with the world.

You enter a new place.

Broken still, inside… somehow you just go on… but no one understands.

They don't know what it's like to try and survive while living on the edge of disaster every day.

My life was threatened and almost taken.

I carefully watched my own back.

And while millions of people may have it worse than we… it's no less painful…

or perhaps more, because we stand out as "odd".

We were once leaders in that God-forsaken place.

It's such a strange place to be, is it not?

This christian world we used to fit so easily into, the same world we promoted, adored, held up as the ideal

This very world has rejected us.

And thankfully so, for we are not meant to be part of it.

Dear fellow escapee, I bless you as you learn to ride these winds of adversity

I ask Papa God to give you extra grace to rise up today… to defeat this religious spirit and pounce on it,

and then more grace to snatch others out of the jaws of disgrace, dysfunction, and victim mentality.

More grace, Abba…. shalom…