Healing Church Wounds (With Jesus in the Room)

Have you ever walked away from a church experience carrying pain, skepticism, or guardedness? Fear is a God-given protective gift—meant to act as a helpful passenger alerting us to danger—but when we experience church wounds, fear often hijacks the driver's seat and walls us off from the community and healing Jesus wants to give us.

In this message, we explore how to stop wrestling fear in our own strength and instead "send it home to the Father." Through the lens of Immanuel Journaling and the Gospels, we discover that Jesus doesn't lecture us from a distance about our church wounds—He knows every category of church pain personally, from rejection by spiritual authorities and political crossfire to betrayal by His closest inner circle.

In This Message:

Why fear is a protective gift meant to be a passenger, not the driver

What happens when we release fear into the Father's arms instead of fighting, distracting, or numbing it

How Jesus meets us in our pain by inviting us into His own church wounds

Three categories of church wounds Jesus personally endured in the Gospels (Mark 3, Matthew 22, John 6, John 9, Luke 12)