E899 | Betrayal by Others

So by way of review, this conversation started...

Because a number of things were getting our attention around betrayal.

And we were just running into, you know, this counseling and that intervention and this friend just telling us a story.

Things we've experienced.

There just seemed to be this collective acceleration of, hey, pay attention to this.

And it was primarily some of the intervention we've been doing in discipling with leaders around the world.

And so we wanted to address that.

But you can't open this can of worms without betrayal within teams is very real and consequential.

But there are other very real and maybe even more consequential forms.

So then we got deeper into the tectonic plates of the human soul.

And last week we were trying to identify how important it is to name it for what it is.

This fundamental breach of the fabric of trust, the rending of it.

Part of what I'd like to get into, if we can this week, is repairing trust.

I don't mean primarily between those people.

Some of them should not be repaired if they're still in a very harmful posture.

Or if they're just gone.

But what I mean is repairing the capacity to trust and form attachments again.

So I think that's going to be important where we go this week.

And we were, as we were kind of talking and praying beforehand, I was remembering...

So one of the significant betrayals, but not the deepest in my life, was a colleague, a very close colleague, a teammate that turned on me a number of years ago, not here at this ministry, it was in another organization.

And it happened with such dizzying speed that And the grenade going off with such collateral damage because not only did they turn on me and leave, but they tried to do as much defamation as they could on their way out the door.

Right.

And how many stories we heard about that.

all the blaming, the accusing, and literally just defamation.

I'm just going to make your life miserable because in whatever they perceive reality to be, they feel that that's what they need to do.