{"id":2066,"date":"2023-09-25T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/anna-golden-the-singer-discovers-healing-and-beauty-within-the-church-following-a-painful-experience\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:11:07","slug":"anna-golden-the-singer-discovers-healing-and-beauty-within-the-church-following-a-painful-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/anna-golden-the-singer-discovers-healing-and-beauty-within-the-church-following-a-painful-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Golden, the Singer, Discovers Healing and Beauty within the Church following a Painful Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline has-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-tools\"><a href=\"#cp-talk\" class=\"has-number talk-cp-255668\" data-scrollto=\".viafoura\" aria-label=\"Go to comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/chat-rect.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><span class=\"number\"\/><\/a><a href=\"\" class=\"js-share\" aria-label=\"Share\" id=\"share-btn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/share-outline.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"760\" height=\"343\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/04\/150449_w_760_343.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/04\/150449_w_760_343.png\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" width=\"760\" height=\"343\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">Christian singer and worship leader Anna Golden (L) speaks on an episode of Sadie Robertson Huff&#8217;s (R) &#8220;Whoa That&#8217;s Good&#8221; podcast on Sept. 21, 2023.<\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Sadie Robertson Huff <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Christian singer and worship leader Anna Golden recently opened up about how she found beauty in the Church after becoming a bit brokenhearted and disappointed in how people in her churches acted.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old musician was a guest on a Sept. 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VJWK-KL62QE?si=OGrL7gzLWhpZfftQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode<\/a> of Sadie Robertson Huff&#8217;s &#8220;Whoa That&#8217;s Good&#8221; podcast. She shared that she grew up in the Church and had a passion for the Church from as far back as she can remember. She even worked in full-time ministry for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was the kind of kid who just lived in church. I really loved it. I was probably so churchy as a kid to the point where it was maybe annoying,&#8221; Golden recounted of her earlier years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just loved it. I wanted to be in youth group. I was in every internship. I was also homeschooled. I didn&#8217;t have a lot else going on. So I was like, church, that&#8217;s my life. And I feel really fortunate because I really did get to know the heart of the Lord really young.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to See Beauty in the Church \u2014 Even After You&#039;ve Been Hurt | Sadie Robertson Huff &amp; Anna Golden\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VJWK-KL62QE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Through serving in ministry, growing up, and then making the shift and also working in ministry, it&#8217;s like you see behind the curtain of things. And you see that people are people no matter what building they&#8217;re in, no matter what title they&#8217;re in, no matter if there&#8217;s a pastor by their name or not,&#8221; Golden said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, when I was younger, I didn&#8217;t really have the wherewithal or the discernment to know that. It was crushing. I remember my first year working in ministry being like, &#8216;People do what?&#8217; And it was just devastating to me,&#8221; she continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that over the accumulation of years, I just started to wear some of it. And I became that person who maybe was a little disgruntled in ministry and a little more brokenhearted than anything.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She warned that sometimes people can label &#8220;brokenheartedness as a bitter heart.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But they are two very different things,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think that through this disappointment, I just kind of wore that on my chest a little bit.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2020, Golden transitioned from working on staff at her former church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was this moment where I really looked at my hands and I felt like the Lord gave me this vision of like looking at my hands full of broken glass, and He was like: &#8216;Are you going to let me pick that out of your hands or you want to keep holding on to it?'&#8221; Golden recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was part of me that felt like if I let it go, that there wouldn&#8217;t be justice for it, \u2026 that &#8216;justice wouldn&#8217;t be served, so I need to keep this in front of you, Lord.&#8217; He was like, &#8216;No, I want to actually take that from you. Let&#8217;s actually look through your past and look at it a little differently in the lens of someone who&#8217;s healed.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the ministry vocation for a time, Golden said she went to counseling. But the singer said it wasn&#8217;t until she prayed to God to help her see the Church in the same way He does that she could begin her healing journey and return to serving in ministry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew I always wanted to be in ministry, but I knew that my perspective wasn&#8217;t healthy at the time. I knew whatever I didn&#8217;t feel, I was going to replicate. So I was like: &#8216;Lord, I need you to help me. I want to see the Church,'&#8221; Golden said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire Bible is this beautiful imagery of how much the Lord loves us. And He calls us His Bride, which is the Church. And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Why do you still see it like that? Why do you talk about the Church like this in Revelation and in Acts?&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did you fight for the Church even when they were doing these crazy things? We see these scriptures, and [I asked God]: &#8216;Lord, would you show me.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Golden transitioned to Dallas, Texas, to work at a church called Shoreline City, where she said she has been serving in ministry ever since under pastoral leadership &#8220;with a healthy perspective.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not a perfect ministry. But, we&#8217;re just people who love Jesus, who fight for forgiveness, who apologize quick, who literally just want to out serve one another,&#8221; Golden said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember coming in and being on staff, and they gave me such freedom. \u2026 I remember walking in, I was like, &#8216;Are churches really white? Like the whole church was a white building with white paint everywhere.&#8217; And I was like, &#8216;I feel like I&#8217;m like coming in, and I have mud all over me. Like I&#8217;ve come from these different experiences.&#8217; And they&#8217;re like, &#8216;No, you might have come through fire, but you don&#8217;t smell like smoke.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Golden said her new church has encouraged her and helped her find healing from her past experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They really prophesied over me. Just like: &#8216;You are such a healthy leader. You&#8217;re a daughter of the house. Like we&#8217;ve grafted you in like there&#8217;s nothing that is going to change our minds about you here. You&#8217;re not going to mess everything up.&#8217; All these things. And I saw through the lens of healthy ministry and healthy leaders,&#8221; Golden said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really started to heal my past, these little cracks in my heart. I knew that when I got out of counseling, I had like scabs but didn&#8217;t have scars yet. I knew wherever I was going, it could have gotten worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Golden credits God for her healing from a past that she once thought she would have to hold onto forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful for the gift of being able to forget the things that I literally thought my entire life I&#8217;d be walking with this limp. I thought my entire life I&#8217;d see things through the lens of certain pain or certain leaders or triggers or trauma,&#8221; Golden said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just remember having this moment with the Lord; He&#8217;s like: &#8216;I&#8217;m so much bigger than you give me credit for. I can reach back into your past. \u2026 And the Lord&#8217;s like, \u2026 &#8216;I can still redeem things from your past. That&#8217;s who I am. I&#8217;m a god of reconciliation. I&#8217;m a God that works things together for good. I pull things from the past and rework it into this beautiful story that it is now.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p><em>Nicole Alcindor is a reporter for The Christian Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"eoa_freedom_post\">\n<h2><span>Free<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Join thousands of others to get the <strong>FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/singer-anna-golden-found-beauty-in-the-church-after-being-hurt.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian singer and worship leader Anna Golden (L) speaks on an episode of Sadie Robertson Huff&#8217;s (R) &#8220;Whoa That&#8217;s Good&#8221; podcast on Sept. 21, 2023. | YouTube\/Sadie Robertson Huff Christian singer and worship leader Anna Golden recently opened up about how she found beauty in the Church after becoming a bit brokenhearted and disappointed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}