1. Children, Vulnerable persons and Elderly Safety
How to identify Sexual Predators (Easy method 1. TEACH your children about the dangers of excessive obscenity 2. Stay away from nonsense social situations)
These things are TAUGHT and Educators or others who work with vulnerable people (educators and healthcare professionals) are required to take classes to help identify the abuse problems. Churches NEED to do the same (as in, the book of Leviticus needs to be known, with a truth-based scientific study about the matters at hand). It really wouldn't take more than 1 day of instruction and reading through materials to understand proper handling of the matters.
Obscenity issues = where are YOUR FEET going? Where is the child (or vulnerable persons) FEET going? It takes time and energy to mislead someone in the wrong place......why not lead the vulnerable in the RIGHT way, away from doing evil and towards doing what is right. The further the distance away from the vulnerable person, the less likely lascivious behavior will erupt. Jesus did FINE in leading people by SPEAKING from a DISTANCE on a boat in the sea.
RARELY is a need for health-issues (the vulnerable people would need health assistance from a church educator or youth leadership) needed in proper judgment when it comes to meeting in a church group or building. In those cases, ensure that an actual healthcare provider is near-by, don't EVER give a vulnerable person over to a person who has never been trained to handle vulnerable ethical issues for healthcare of needy people.
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Internet issues from the church? Ensure that the church is not allowing "just anything" to come through the internet services, for children and/or vulnerable adults. A child should not have the opportunity to hook-up with strangers through the internet services in a hidden dark office room.
A person who seems and acts like he or she "knows" something about the child and his life, will make that child more vulnerable to the predator. Do NOT reveal a lot of information about your child on internet resources.
Make sure this is posted near all computers https://humantraffickinghotline.org/ AND safety rules, if the computers are available to the "general public" of a church.
Note: Jesus grew up in a BORING town (with a touch of culture). Nazareth only had about 200 people in it. The children and vulnerable people WILL survive without having a lot of people KNOW who they are while growing up!
3. Financial abuse or misuse.
Perhaps the church could have
Money hungry pastors often never seek to attend a "funeral" of any of the beloved followers. Do NOT give money to these types of churches! Even some small local church groups could have a charlatan who makes more than double the rest of the fellowship members off of the "tithe money," while catering to various political correct conversations to keep his job. (Good pastors are willing to work in regular employment instead of making money off of their congregations or denominational institutions.) Rather, seek to support various needs within or around the local community! Examples: Donations for healthcare, food pantry, clothing drives, elderly care and services, educational and school services to promote Christ-centered education and so forth.
4. Excessive Hollywood or lasciviousness allowed within the church "Structure..."
People do get tempted by this and that. Family members may laugh at the "jokes" produced by some Hollywood guy or soap-opera debut, but in reality, no person can truly STAND to constantly live in a "lascivious culture."
Consider modesty (for male and female) as a GOOD THING from time to time. Every tribal group has given honour to the more modestly dressed and wise elders of the tribes.
5. Know the difference between a "joker" type of family or domestic situation and a clear problematic issue. The wise know what these guys know and talk about. The PARENT is available and appears to be respected or honored in the video. A person needs to know what the children KNOW. The bible clearly says whom the patriarchs KNEW (Adam KNEW his wife).
Junk is junk. Clean is Clean. Abuse is Abuse (trying to mix "the junk" with "the clean"). Especially when it comes to the imagination in the heart of men and the conversations that are shared in domestic situations and even online situations.
Thats "nuts" they may say........but do not mix the two in wrong time and place.
Some people do get sent "nutty things" through emails and conversations.....but how a person ACTS upon those things is what makes a person good or bad. (Jesus addressed Capernea and the woman caught in adultery....he acted appropriately in those situations)
Note: the more likely a child can properly "identify the junk" and decide to stay away from it......the less likely he or she will be a victim (or a perpetrator). They simply need to know how to "cancel" the influences and temptations.
6. Fire, stormy weather, and cleaning issues
Make sure the church building, if it is used regularly for meetings has a plan for ways to escape in times of fire, bad weather or basic health issues. A place to eat food that has some sanitary issues could be a problem, so consider cleanliness when meeting together. (even though Jesus said to wash the inside, he was STILL concerned about health safety too)
This should be a "no brainier," but for some people who are severely controlled by a church group, they escape reality of general safety and concern especially if that church has cult-like behavior, or overlook the poor, widow and elderly.
Other church groups that are in high persecution areas, make sure that all "food safety" is considered within the church. Some terrorists will create biological safety hazards, or people will be in a rush and never consider this issue.
7. Terror issues, racism diversity issues
Is the church group catering to extreme views on various tribes on the earth that would encourage "terrorism" related behavior? Maybe someone in the church is catering to severe anti-semetism groups and people are not confronting that issue at hand. Maybe some people are upset that a person of a different nationality wants to marry someone of a different nationality. In some cases, there could be sense in proper discernment about marriage choices (like some tribal groups are shorter and some are taller than others, which makes a couple look mismatched and not capable of understanding each other (TRIBES ARE UNIQUE) ), but in other cases it could be a race based prejudice about a marriage choice.
Is the church ready to respond to terror problems? Are they more likely to use "non-violent" or "non-resistance" towards evil men or are they more likely to encourage people to be heavily armed in the case of terror? Does the church KNOW how to spot and identify possible terror suspects and/or victims in your community? (racial issues? resistance to political opinions?)
8. Extreme Patriarchy or Matriarchy views that seem to disown or dismantle the person-hood of the parents or other family members. (This is often a problem in conservative leaning church groups, but it DOESN'T have to be this way)
Some patriarchy groups think that the "wife" cannot return to her "home-family" and consider their needs from time to time (Remember the Holocaust survivors saw their other family members getting persecuted too......so people know persecution when they see it happening to others who are related or otherwise.)
Some matriarchy groups think that a "woman" is only a true woman if she can have 20+ children and be admired on a TV screen. This is simply NOT the plan for the redemption of humanity. (If you love me, obey my commandments.....this is what JESUS says, not what extreme Matriarchy says). Some Matriarchy groups can also assume that women shouldn't have 20+ children, but should only have "2" children to make social life for the children more "efficient"......while they ignore, confiscate and mock at women who bear and raise "down syndrome children."
Essentially, extreme patriarchy or matriarchy says the opposite "sex" is the stupid one in all the problems we face in this life. But the BIBLE says that OLD ADAM is the bad guy.......not a specific gender or frame of going through this life. (men and women are EQUALLY accountable for how they treat the opposite spouse or gender)
An example could be coming from these types of groups which promote a "fear" of certain beliefs and ideas:
https://www.fortrock.org/
(telling a woman that she needs to "do" something "outwardly pretty" beautiful in order to feel loved by God and husband is wrong and is not Christian or biblical/hebrew thinking. (I know a girl who had facial scaring and physical weakness who became "born again" to feel full love of JESUS and she was definitely well loved by the community and family!)
(women that only have one or two children and can have no more are not "less of a woman"..... Sarah..... was not less of a woman and Abraham was not less of a man)
There are dangerous ideas that are "crazy" and "false accusation" nature from far-left feminism.
Other forms of far-left matriarchy that leads to degradation instead of instruction in truth and righteousness....
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These issues are likely to show up in some way or another. There could be other issues at hand, but these seem to be the modern issues.
Yes, I believe in (attend the church with physical presence) Family Integrated Church/Bible Fellowship groups, especially if the children are taught from the bible at home from a young age. Lately, I have been attending a Seventh Day Adventist or Messianic congregation. I would go to a baptist or anabaptist fellowship as well, but sometimes they look at a person funny if you say you have some relatives (Luke 1:36) from the "Levant" or have some knowledge of heritages from biblical mentioned people groups and the biblical mentioned holidays..
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