Couldn't you please consider putting The Gospel according to Hillsong up on You Tube? That would be helpful. Jesus says, wich kind of worshippers our Father seeks..
I think some of this shows a lack of balance in the character of God. By the way I am definitely not charismatic or a Hillsonger at all and have never been. But I will 100% say though is of course I have been a victim. We are all victim of all sorts of pain and suffering and horror. Do you know why? Because we are victims of perpetrators. And we victimise as perpetrators. The moment we try to shame people for their trauma, by calling them victims in that derogatory way rather than victims in a validating way, we actually undermine this and the sin that has been committed to them. Let alone being victims of all sorts of terrible circumstances. Jesus Christ was very compassionate to people who are victims of other people and of circumstance. He also warned us not to be perpetrators that victimised others. I get incredible therapeutic help from reading help Job and the psalmists and others felt victimised by life. It means that I know that is the God of the Bible promises, all my tears are stored away and each one of them will be wiped from my eyes and I will be seen, I will be heard, I will be loved and I will be healed. Nope not now always - mostly in Eternity. And he puts that upon the me to do the good works prepared in advance for me to do, see hear (within reason - please patients, be considerate of your doctors time and energy) love and heal others. No I don’t believe in miraculous supernatural healing but I’m a doctor and I’m also loving person. I’m also a terribly sinful person. Both a hand in hand. Never ever ever condemn someone for being a victim. That language Shows lack of sanctification into compassion and empathy. Shows much work to do still in the character of the person who claims that God has redeemed them into a life of love. Isn’t it wonderful that Jesus Christ didn’t execute a sentence against the woman caught in adultery? Or against Peter when he was spreading wrong doctrine and going back to Judaism? Isn’t it fantastic that instead, he gives us opportunity after opportunity to redeem ourselves. But then again compassion empathy and humility have been what I have been able to transform into. An unrepentant evil and hardened heart - a sociopathic criminal - may not be able to respond to chance after chance but a wise and careful person can act like Jesus did and see who was a real evil ones - those who accuse the “woman caught in adulterer” or the accusers. This man’s heart needs a little more work.
