Lisa Gungor Responds to Backlash on Facebook with Honest Open Letter, 'I Did the Thing I Didn’t Really Want to Do…I Prayed for Love'

Lisa Gungor, one half of Gungor, and the less vocal member of the two, took to Facebook to express her thoughts on the group's "controversy" caused by circulating articles on the Internet about their belief in the Bible.

To find out all the details about how this "controversy" unfolded, check out some of our coverage of Gungor here, here, and here.

Lisa, wife of Michael, said she took time responding to all of the hate the band received because she did not want to respond quickly and instinctually. The Gungor's have been going through a series of non-musical trials in their own personal lives involving their daughter's health, their living situation, and the death of a close friend. The whole media firestone that came upon them was just fuel to an already hectic situation for them.

"I went to bed three nights ago with a fair amount of anxiety. The past three months have been the hardest Michael and I have ever faced. They say things come in threes, but you just don't expect for the grouping of three to happen three times over. The moment I feel I have a little breath in my lungs, something else hits hard," she wrote on Facebook.

Lisa admitted she had stayed away from the articles coming out to avoid getting angry and enthralled in all of the attention. She said after giving in, she was encouraged by the people showing support, but deeply hurt by the negative comments.

"Strong was the motherly instinct to protect my family, wanting to defend against all of the people who have strewn hatred onto the oblivion of the internet," she wrote, "I wanted to defend. But instead, I did the thing I didn't really want to do"¦I prayed for love."

She continued, "Both sides declaring 'right-ness,' both sides stating a case but are we really listening to each other? So I prayed anger would subside; that Michael and I would lay down our desire for ammunition, and others would as well. I prayed for love."

Lisa believes creating dialogue through healthy debate is something essential to "move forward into truth." What she is against is hateful remarks that sting deep, "Let us remember we are all real people, real faces behind these computers, real kiddos to put to bed at night, real hearts feeling stress and hurt when discussions and comments run wild."

She closed her open letter of sorts with - "So I pray for you, for me, and for us - that we would discover unity. That as we discuss, search for truth and take leaps of faith, that love would rise above the noise and we would miraculously, amazingly, be one."

What do you think of Lisa Gungor's comments? Is the church being too hard on the Gungor's or is this whole situation blown out of proportion?