What happened in his past to traumatize him was not his fault, as in the case for ALL Of us who have issues and trauma, but his responsibility was to deal with it appropriately as a Christian.
There are two resources I've stumbled on recently that are wonderful for doing that.
One is a book entitled *Forgiveness* by Rodney Hogue, and the other is a CD set entitled *How to Have an Emotionally Healthy Marriage* by Jimmy Evans.
The book is a very concise, short read about forgiveness and the DC is almost misleading in its title because it's really about becoming an emotionally healthy person, the side benefit is having an emotionally healthy marriage.
The gist of that is to take responsibility for our actions and reactions, and to forgive.
From person experience, I KNOW how powerful forgiveness can be in taking care of issues and sin.
What happened in his past to traumatize him was not his fault, as in the case for ALL Of us who have issues and trauma, but his responsibility was to deal with it appropriately as a Christian.
There was just too much evidence of pride in his responses. I know pride, I have a chronic (not terminal) condition of it that hasn’t been cured yet.
There is a lot of relevance to Job here but after everything that happened, Job’s response was,
Job 42:5 I had only heard about You before, but now I have seen You with my own eyes.
This “leader” still thinks it is about him and I will trust that God is at work still beating it out of him. But I can comment (judge) on what I observe.
Of course we have to remember this is being filtered through the author and we are not getting the whole truth. The headline gives us a clue to the agenda.