Calling in the exiles
Monday | 3 November 2025
The Lord has been speaking to me for over a year about the exile that results from double binds. I suspect that the largest group of Christians in Australia (and probably the world) is not the prodigals but the exiles.
The exiles are those believers who have been forced out of church by a double bind imposed on them by the church. They are often seriously traumatised at having been cast out. They are like amputated parts of the Body of Christ and often have deeply significant messages from the Lord but nowhere to land them.
Their children are the ones most affected – they have turned away from God.
The exiles need release from the double bind through an invitation to return, however, for them, the church has not been a safe place. They do not trust those ‘inside’. The ones they do trust a little are those on the margins — those who are on the periphery of an established church, but not anywhere close to the centre.
The root of the double bind is, I now believe, a misunderstanding of the Trinity. We are generally well-acquainted with the results of detachment from the Father-heart of God, but we have ignored what detachment from the Trinitarian-heart of God means.
I believe that the marginalised are the key to the healing of the wounded exiles and to drawing them back into the life of the Body of Christ. But how that would work, I don’t know. To create a formal ministry for the marginalised is to eliminate their marginalisation and therefore negate their ability to reach the exiles.
I believe that the Lord is asking His church to call the exiles home, so I hope He has given someone a strategy to achieve that.
So, in summary what the Lord’s been saying to me lately is:
- the long-delayed new era is now – but the birth process will be a battle
- look for a strategy to call the exiles (and particularly the children of exiles) home
- the key to this is understanding and being in touch with the Trinitarian-heart of God