Description: ""Abuse is a problem that needs to be understood,
addressed, and challenged. The abused are humans in the image of
God who need to be protected, loved, and empowered to stand with us
and walk through life with respect and dignity. When God brings a
victim to us, we have a responsibility to love them as we want to
be loved and be faithful to that responsibility. We must make sure
that they and their children are safe, protected, and given the
chance to live in peace and love. Abusers are also humans who are
in the image of God, and they need to be taught how to live and
respect all others. They must be confronted and challenged to
change or face prosecution by our legal system and our spiritual
communities. ""I believe that the faith community is in a great
position to address this problem. We have a God who grieves over
the violence that occurs in families. Yet we have a God who grieves
even more over the fact that spiritual leaders have failed to act
as servants of Yahweh in this respect. ""The rest of this book is
an appeal to you to gain an understanding of what it really means
to face domestic violence and how to help bring peace and wholeness
to victims and their children caught in the web of abuse. It is an
appeal to you to confront those who abuse others rather than shut
your eyes . . . ."" --from the Introduction Endorsements: Setting
the Captives Free should be required reading in every seminary Ron
Clark's knowledge on the dynamics of domestic violence, including
the power and control issues surrounding the cycle of abuse is
essential for clergy and Christian Counselors alike. I highly
recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about how they
might better assist victims of domestic violence in the faith
community. --Patricia Riddle Gaddis, MA Director & Founder of
The Family Peace Project Author of Battered But Not Broken: Help
for Abused Wives and their Church Families and Dangerous Dating:
Helping Young Women Say No To Abuse. Every few years a book comes
along which opens the eyes of the church to a critical spiritual
need in the world and the alarming gap in our theology which has
closed our eyes to that need. ""Setting the Captives Free"" is one
of those books. Just as Barna's books have done concerning the
lost, just as Sider's books have done concerning poverty, so Ron's
book does concerning domestic abuse. Ron opens the church's eyes to
the dark world of domestic abuse victims and the gap in our
theology which has kept us blind to their needs. After reading the
book, I feel to my knees in repentance for not leading our church
to minister to these victims. Ron gave me the tools and the
theology to begin talking to our congregation about these needs.
--Dr. Chris Altrock, Minister, Highland Street Church of Christ,
Memphis, TN Author The Cross: Saved by the Shame of It All and
Preaching to Pluralists This is a groundbreaking book that is well
worth reading. It really grasps the issues of abuse and provides
practical, spiritual answers to anyone who has been impacted
directly, or indirectly. --Bettie Williams-Watson, Founder,
Executive Director of Multi-Communities (M.I.C.), Seattle, WA.
About the Contributor(s): Ron Clark is the Minister for the Agape
Church of Christ in Portland, Oregon. He has led training seminars
on domestic violence for pastors, law enforcement groups, and
congregations. His articles on abuse have appeared in both religion
and counseling journals.
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