Understanding Sexual Abuse

A Guide for Ministry Leaders and Survivors

Tim Hein

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Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1-910012-47-5
Publication Date: 27/02/2018

This book is a courageous gift ... No Christian leader can answer the call of ministry today and not be informed about this issue.
Debra Hirsch

Drawing on his own experience as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, minister and lecturer Tim Hein offers his expertise, practical guidance, and empathy. For those who have suffered sexual abuse and those in a position to help them, this is a rich resource filled with sober truths and the hope of Christ.

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As many as one in four girls and one in six boys experience sexual abuse during childhood, and it’s estimated that half of the incidents are never reported.

Countless millions, both children and adults, carry this complex, often hidden pain. What does the path to healing look like for survivors? And how can ministry leaders, pastors, and counsellors best help them as they walk this difficult road?

Drawing on both his own and his wife’s experience as survivors of childhood sexual abuse, minister and lecturer Tim Hein offers his expertise, practical guidance, and empathy. Both for those who have suffered sexual abuse and those in a position to help them, this book is a rich resource filled with sober truths and the hope of Christ, calling survivors to take courage and walk unafraid down the road of healing.

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Contents

Foreword by Debra Hirsch
Introduction
Chapter 1 : A Safe Place
Chapter 2 : Why Abuse Hurts
Chapter 3 : Breaking the Power of Secrets
Chapter 4 : What Does Recovery Look Like?
Chapter 5 : Justice, Anger, and the Question of Forgiveness
Chapter 6 : Where Is God?
Chapter 7 : A Broken Hallelujah
Chapter 8 : Choosing Life
Acknowledgements
Endnotes

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Tim Hein
Tim Hein

Tim Hein is Vice Principal and Director of Discipleship at Uniting College for Leadership and Theology in Adelaide, and Associate Lecturer on Spirituality and Discipleship at Flinders University, Australia. He is an ordained minister in the Uniting Church in Australia and speaks and preaches regularly on the Christian faith. Tim has previously pastored a large regional church, lived in urban intentional and marginal communities in Melbourne, led an intentional young adult discipleship program, and established CitySoul, a congregation in the inner city of Adelaide.

He lives in Adelaide with his wife, Priscilla. He also co-hosts The Unmade Podcast with Brady Haran.

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