To Kiss Savage Faces
Using Heart-Language Scripture in Trauma Healing
The man stood screaming at her. Judith could feel his rage and hurt as he yelled his refusal. “No! No forgiveness for what they have done to our people!”
He was one of eight local pastors gathered in an open tent on a hot, dusty North African plain. They were there to participate in a trauma healing workshop led by Pioneer Bible Translators missionaries. The workshop draws on stories of pain and redemption in Scripture to show people in crisis that God can heal them.
Judith, the missionary leading it, had just begun to lead a discussion about what forgiveness was, and what it was not. She sensed but did not understand the growing tension in the group.
Then one man’s rage boiled over…
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