Finding Healing Through Trauma and Resurrection
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "We like to say here at the Bridge, this is a safe place to struggle. This is a safe place to be skeptical. Which means you can come in here carrying whatever it is that's been going on in your life and you don't have to act like you have it all together. You don't have to act like you don't have questions. Questions for God and questions for the church." [00:57]
2. "And so whether in our trauma or the trauma of others, our job is not to make God appear, but to know that he is near. Our job is not to make God appear, but to know that he is near. Yet we may not always recognize it. It says their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And it's said in a way that God is at work in the midst of this, which means sometimes we won't always see that God is there, but it doesn't mean he isn't." [13:29]
3. "So I don't know what you are facing right now, whether it is turbulence in your marriage, whether it's loneliness in your life, whether it is a crippling diagnosis or a horrific tragedy, or just the pain of your past, know that Jesus is drawing near. You don't have to run to try and find him. He is finding you. Amen." [14:36]
4. "When grief comes out, it makes room for life to come in. And that is true of small griefs as well as big griefs. When we talk about this, this doesn't have to be your story, it might look different than others, and yet all of us have experienced losses. And if we aren't able to name those, it makes it hard for life to come in." [24:54]
5. "And if you're here today and you would not consider yourself a follower of Jesus, I just, encourage you to not go another day without knowing him. Without knowing the wounded healer who heals not from a place of superiority, but by entering into our weakness and brokenness." [29:24]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And the church should be a safe place for these conversations. We believe the church should be a place that has and encourages these conversations rather than avoids them. And so this month we've been walking through a series called Trauma Informed. And can we give Pastor Boone a hand just for the words he has given us these past few weeks. He has been loving and caring for us from God's word and accomplishing our hope for this series, which was one, to help all of us see how God cares for and meets us in the midst of our wounds, our traumas, and our stories and shows us path towards healing. And second, to empower us to be people that enter into the pain of others with compassion, patience, and the love of Jesus." [01:50]
2. "And this is what can be so hard about trauma in my life and your life is it creates a feedback loop where we relive and interpret everything through the events and the things that have happened to us, the fear to risk again and trust again and hope again. And so here is the first truth. And if you get nothing else today, I want you to know this. Jesus draws near to us in the midst of our trauma. They are walking. They don't even believe Jesus has risen from the dead and he draws near to them. He walks up alongside them." [12:17]
3. "He provides space for them to share their experience. He doesn't decide for them what it was like, but asks them, how are you dealing with that? What is it that has taken place? He gives them space to talk about the crucifixion they had seen and to talk about their shattered dreams, to name the real losses that they have experienced. And so for us too, part of processing trauma is naming the deaths we have experienced. Naming the losses. Losses we have been through. Naming the pain and the fear and the emotions that we are scared won't go away." [15:47]
4. "And if I'm not willing to stare honestly and name honestly, what I've been through and where I've been, I will not be able to sit in the pain of others. Because just like I try to jump too quickly to healing, I'll try to make others do the same. And if we have not been through the desert ourselves, it will be hard to be present in the desert with others. And you may say the natural question that comes in the midst of this is if I start crying, I'll never stop. If I bring that up, I'm scared I won't ever be able to move. I'm scared I won't ever be able to move beyond it. Or maybe it was so long ago, it doesn't actually affect me anymore." [18:58]
5. "And if you want growth in your life, if you want resurrection in your family, if you want generational trauma to change, you will have to experience death first. Glory and resurrection cannot come without death. Something cannot rise again until it is dead. And he shows them how all of the scripture has pointed to this. He says, He goes to the Old Testament, to the law, to the prophets, and he says, This pattern of death into life is what the whole story is about. My raising from the dead is what all of this has been pointing to, that the love of God, that the love of God comes into death and violence and says there is life." [22:25]
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1. "We like to say here at the Bridge, this is a safe place to struggle. This is a safe place to be skeptical. Which means you can come in here carrying whatever it is that's been going on in your life and you don't have to act like you have it all together. You don't have to act like you don't have questions. Questions for God and questions for the church." [00:57]
2. "And so whether in our trauma or the trauma of others, our job is not to make God appear, but to know that he is near. Our job is not to make God appear, but to know that he is near. Yet we may not always recognize it. It says their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And it's said in a way that God is at work in the midst of this, which means sometimes we won't always see that God is there, but it doesn't mean he isn't." [13:29]
3. "So I don't know what you are facing right now, whether it is turbulence in your marriage, whether it's loneliness in your life, whether it is a crippling diagnosis or a horrific tragedy, or just the pain of your past, know that Jesus is drawing near. You don't have to run to try and find him. He is finding you. Amen." [14:36]
4. "When grief comes out, it makes room for life to come in. And that is true of small griefs as well as big griefs. When we talk about this, this doesn't have to be your story, it might look different than others, and yet all of us have experienced losses. And if we aren't able to name those, it makes it hard for life to come in." [24:54]
5. "And if you're here today and you would not consider yourself a follower of Jesus, I just, encourage you to not go another day without knowing him. Without knowing the wounded healer who heals not from a place of superiority, but by entering into our weakness and brokenness." [29:24]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And the church should be a safe place for these conversations. We believe the church should be a place that has and encourages these conversations rather than avoids them. And so this month we've been walking through a series called Trauma Informed. And can we give Pastor Boone a hand just for the words he has given us these past few weeks. He has been loving and caring for us from God's word and accomplishing our hope for this series, which was one, to help all of us see how God cares for and meets us in the midst of our wounds, our traumas, and our stories and shows us path towards healing. And second, to empower us to be people that enter into the pain of others with compassion, patience, and the love of Jesus." [01:50]
2. "And this is what can be so hard about trauma in my life and your life is it creates a feedback loop where we relive and interpret everything through the events and the things that have happened to us, the fear to risk again and trust again and hope again. And so here is the first truth. And if you get nothing else today, I want you to know this. Jesus draws near to us in the midst of our trauma. They are walking. They don't even believe Jesus has risen from the dead and he draws near to them. He walks up alongside them." [12:17]
3. "He provides space for them to share their experience. He doesn't decide for them what it was like, but asks them, how are you dealing with that? What is it that has taken place? He gives them space to talk about the crucifixion they had seen and to talk about their shattered dreams, to name the real losses that they have experienced. And so for us too, part of processing trauma is naming the deaths we have experienced. Naming the losses. Losses we have been through. Naming the pain and the fear and the emotions that we are scared won't go away." [15:47]
4. "And if I'm not willing to stare honestly and name honestly, what I've been through and where I've been, I will not be able to sit in the pain of others. Because just like I try to jump too quickly to healing, I'll try to make others do the same. And if we have not been through the desert ourselves, it will be hard to be present in the desert with others. And you may say the natural question that comes in the midst of this is if I start crying, I'll never stop. If I bring that up, I'm scared I won't ever be able to move. I'm scared I won't ever be able to move beyond it. Or maybe it was so long ago, it doesn't actually affect me anymore." [18:58]
5. "And if you want growth in your life, if you want resurrection in your family, if you want generational trauma to change, you will have to experience death first. Glory and resurrection cannot come without death. Something cannot rise again until it is dead. And he shows them how all of the scripture has pointed to this. He says, He goes to the Old Testament, to the law, to the prophets, and he says, This pattern of death into life is what the whole story is about. My raising from the dead is what all of this has been pointing to, that the love of God, that the love of God comes into death and violence and says there is life." [22:25]
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