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I think there is a great misunderstanding in the church about what it means for Jesus to return, and what it meant for Him to «go away» and much of this misunderstanding has led to great manipulation and spiritual abuse in the Christian church.

Too often spiritual abuse in the form of shame is directed at those, especially young people, who dare to question the teachings of highly placed Pentecostal ministers and evangelists.

Next month we will examine in depth the extent of spiritual abuse in the UK.

Tiggy: if you have missed out on spiritual abuse in its many guises, the most infamous being the American sourced shepherding movemenr of the late 70s & early 80s, then consider yourself blessed in your ignorance

Next month we will look in depth at the issue of spiritual abuse in the UK and then we will consider appropriate responses and remedies.

I am focusing on spiritual abuse in particular: Admit that it happened.

As one who has been through the living hell of spiritual abuse in my old church there is no way I can keep quiet about those who abuse church members.

Brad Sargeant (futuristguy) really is the go to person on how to deal with spiritual abuse in the church context.

Not exact matches

The most common addiction among spiritual leaders is pornography, although substance abuse is just as gripping in its occurrences.

I talk about the issue of spiritual abuse and how people recover from this devastation in their local church.

Or even «hierarchical» religion... I must say that the «hierarchy» in my tradition has been the main instrument protecting me from spiritual abuse, rather than afflicting it.

Don't name names or anything, but tell stories so that people in the pews can be alerted to the spiritual abuse that happens in some churches, and so that spiritual abusers can be put on notice that we aren't going to take it any more.

We are hearing about some serious spiritual, physical and emotional abuse here using the Name of Jesus in a nefarious way.

This is NOT about the details of my divorce but about spiritual abuse by a few and the Pathology that led to the Thugology in the resulting context of really bad Theology.

I have always found it interesting and frustrating in the conversation about spiritual abuse and / or other type of abuse within the Emergent circles of how women and men in the «inner circle» use «they have always been nice.....»

I didn't write about Commenders with this current situation in mind, but because I have generally been seeing an increased level of push - back against them from the spiritual abuse survivor community over the past five years.

A friend of mine who teaches on the collegiate level recently told me, «I don't meet any young adults who've grown up in the church lacking at least one story of spiritual abuse.»

ttm, Belittling the question or the questioner and trying to shut them up is a form of spiritual abuse when it's done in a religious context or for supposedly religious reasons by someone in a position of authority.

Because I take accusations of spiritual abuse seriously (as, I'm sure, do all the people named in Julie's email), in recent days I've gone back in my email archives and reread the many emails Julie sent or forwarded to me during and since 2008.

I myself am a survivor of multiple incidents of spiritual abuse by leaders in a range of evangelical, moderate, conservative, and fundamentalist churches and parachurch settings over the past 40 years.

SGM evoked a religious freedom defense in 2013 when the confidentiality of its pastoral counseling was challenged, stating, «SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse.»

I am neither, but I did marry a mentally ill person who has abused his position as a chaplain and as a Pastor just as Danielle Shroyer, Brad Cecil, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, Mike King and Mark Scandrette did by aiding in this spiritual abuse and diabolical behavior.

I'm in a season of rethinking church & I'd appreciate links to the blog posts & books you would recommend that best unpack & support the idea that the western, institutional church wineskin is, by nature, prone to spiritual abuse.

We're in a conversation about spiritual abuse — the process by which people who have spiritual authority (pastors, preachers, priests, etc.) take advantage of that authority to do harm to those entrusted to their care.

I'm not a lawyer, but have had to do some research on SLAPP / anti-SLAPP because threats of defamation lawsuits against those who speak out seem to arise regularly in situations that involve alleged spiritual abuse.

We can read allowed together, if you wish, and in round, the custody evaluation detailing the emotional, physical, and spiritual abuses.

I'm in the middle of finishing a blog series about responsibility, culpability, and complicity when it comes to spiritual abuse.

Because you «take accusations of spiritual abuse seriously», in your review of prior emails, did you not reconsider the attempt by the discernment team to have Julie committed to a mental institution to be potentially abusive?

comes up all the time in spiritual abuse survivor communities.

... and we then find out publicly from Julie McMahon ex-Jones in her online comments in 2009, 2010, and 2014 that at the same time those seemingly good things were happening, apparently she was enduring emotional and verbal and physical and spiritual abuse.

I have no dog in this fight other than the same overwhelming urge to confront the abusers and seek an end to spiritual manipulation and abuse.

I came out of an abusive church situation, and very close after the realization that I'd been spiritually abused came the realization that as a leader in that system, I too had been a spiritual abuser, repeating the pattern that had been taught to me.

As founder of the Trinity Retreat House, which operates «to provide spiritual direction and retreats for clergy,» Groeschel has worked with priests involved in abuse.

To me and to every victim of spiritual abuse by Pastors in a position of power and influence.

You have all aided in this spiritual abuse that is now out here in the light of day.

I offered, at that time, my opinion that if you take Tony's post about Driscoll in the context of all Tony has said about Pastor Mark, it's very clear that Tony does not «reflect the refusal of the church to understand spiritual abuse» as David observed.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

If I had to guess, I would guess that most of the spiritual abuse that you guys talk about occurs in the reformed and pentecostal traditions.

I've attended many churches (many denominations and / or types) in my life and have seen spiritual abuse and manipulation in EVERY single one of them.

Spiritual / emotional abuse in the churches IS a pandemic, and it will continue until the control freaks finally remember that Jesus said «Feed My sheep» not «Beat My sheep».

«SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse,» a representative of SGM said in a November 14 statement.

In my experience, that one belief was used as justification for all kinds of physical and spiritual abuse.

Paul, as a spiritual father, did not engage in spiritual child abuse.

In the next post on this subject, we will look at the concept of spiritual headship, which is also widely abused.

Gregory's approach to pastoral care of the rich has exceptional subtlety, hinging importantly upon the biblical paradigms of Nathan before David and of David's care for Saul.34 When pastors come before the wealthy as spiritual guides, they do well to remember what Nathan did in the case of the poor man whom the rich man had abused.

Many would see such spiritual abuse and deny that it is harmful; they would say that it's (in some instances) helpful admonishment.

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live iIN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live inin.

I wish they could see the spiritual abuse that is being heaped upon them and leave this church to find real freedom and love in Jesus Christ.

And how can the predatory abuse of human power in prisons against the most vulnerable in their midst be turned so as to allow willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?

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