Dealing with Rejection: How to Respond to Deep Hurt

CCEF Minibooks

by C. John Miller, World Harvest Mission

You feel betrayed. Someone close to you has hurt your deeply. You want to move past the pain and your obsession with what happened, but how? The usual strategies trying to get even, trying to forget just arent working for you. Perhaps its time for a different approach. In Dealing with How to Respond to Deep Hurt, Jack Miller of World Harvest Mission unpacks the different ways that people respond to betrayal and rejection and offers a new way to respond forgiveness rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Forgiveness doesnt mean forgetting or acting as if nothing happened, but it does mean being free from hurt and able to be like Jesus and return good for evil. New Growth Press minibooks are frequently used by pastors and ministry leaders to help others apply biblical wisdom to specific life issues. Churches, biblical counseling ministries, and missional organizations make the minibooks available in their acrylic display cases to further discipleship and gospel-centered living.

24 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 1905

About the author

C. John Jack Miller, PhD, founded Serge (formerly World Harvest Mission) and the New Life Presbyterian network of churches. A pastor, seminary professor, and an author, he wrote Outgrowing the Ingrown Church, Come Back Barbara, Powerful Evangelism for the Powerless, A Faith Worth Sharing, Repentance, and The Heart of the Servant Leader.
He and his wife Rose Marie have five children and twenty-four grandchildren. Jack went to be with the Lord in 1996. Serge means joining together rough edges to form a smooth seam. Serge (formerly World Harvest Mission) is a ministry that sees God weaving together the ragged parts of a fallen world with his goodness, making the tattered beautiful. This grace compels his people to go, to join their lives with the communities Serge serves around the world, as Jesus Christ makes all things new. This is God's grace at the fray. Serge's work consists of sending and caring for missionaries, discipling people around the world, and developing resources like Sonship and The Gospel-Centered Life for spiritual growth. Learn more about our work worldwide at Serge.org.

Reviews

[Annie Hogue · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Lord used this afternoon read powerfully to show me sins of self righteousness and judgment on others that I was unaware of. It also deepened my understanding of forgiveness so that I see how forgiveness of others flows from God’s forgiveness to me.

The most insightful thing for me was understanding how blindness goes with sin. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Jesus Christ loved us sinners when we didn’t get it—at all. Having a little bit of my own blindness and sin revealed to me and seeing Christ’s love for me has released me to forgive and love—in some ways that I didn’t even know I needed and also in some ways I knew I needed and didn’t think possible. Praise the Lord!

[Joe Koehler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love Jack Miller. He brings a good grasp of the gospel and a wealth of experience in pastoral counseling together to address responding to deep hurt with forgiveness. 20m read.

[Julie Havener · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good and helpful on a couple of issues surrounding rejection.