Your Diagnosis,

You Suffer from Being Deaf, Blind, Paralyzed, Dead and Woozy

What a terrible condition to have.  Yet that is a fair description of what happens to a minister when he goes through an attack of Acute Pastor Abuse.  

Definition:  When the good of God's messengers is turned into evil.  Over many months, determined and conscious efforts are made to bring down leadership. When vicious lies are poured out like water, so vile and so often that others wilt under their weight and start to believe they are true.  The faithful to God take a step back in disbelief and fear, unwilling to stand against the onslaught of violently determined souls wholly bent on the destruction of God’s anointed.   People that are considered to be the closest friends and confidants turn against the minister for their own gain.  Secret backroom meetings  take place  to solicit and convince congregants of the evil of its minister.  Letter writing and phone calling campaigns are organized by dissident self appointed leaders who openly declare their intent to remove the pastor at any cost.    

When preaching from the Bible is met with a lack of willingness to listen to God’s servant; When rebellion is thought of as being helpful; When a conspiracy of evil is thought to be the voice of reason and righteousness; When everything honest and good in the character of the minister is twisted into vice and sin, this defines Acute Pastor Abuse.  It is true persecution.  Or to state it another way, it is soul crucifixion.  

When Acute Pastor Abuse occurs, the target minister and his family may experience the symptoms of  post traumatic syndrome.  These symptoms must be understood and dealt with in an appropriate and gentle manner.  It may take three to four years to learn to cope with the after affects.  This healing time may be shortened by early understanding of the work of persecution and the powerful intervention of God to restore the soul of His saints - through Divine Healing.