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Friday, June 11, 2010

Is Your Church Spiritually Abusive?

I came across 3 good articles today. Here are the links:
Is Your Church Spiritually Abusive?
Escaping Spiritual Abuse
Spiritual Abuse
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Helpful Articles

  • A Shepherd And His Flock
  • A Word of Encouragement For Those Who Are Hurt
  • Abuse In The Church: A Biblical Perspective Of Leadership
  • Abuse Of Authority In The Church
  • Abusive Churches
  • Abusive Churches: Leaving Them Behind
  • Beyond Accountability
  • Breaking Free: What I've Learned About Spiritual Abuse
  • Breaking The Silence On Spiritual Abuse (Dynamic Videos On Spiritual Abuse by Jeff VanVonderen
  • But God Is Working In Our Church
  • Characteristics Of An Unhealthy Church
  • Checklist For Responsible Christians
  • Checks On Power And Authority In The New Testament
  • Controlling Personalities In The Church
  • Controlling Personalities In The Church: Manipulation Techniques And Your Defenses
  • Controlling Personalities In The Church: Staying Or Going
  • Controlling Personalities In The Church: The Difficulty Of Seeing The Problem
  • Controlling Personalities In The Church: The Warning Signs
  • Dysfunctional Churches
  • Egypt, O Egypt
  • Eleven Marks Of Perverted Authority
  • Five Warning Signs Of An Unhealthy Church
  • Healing Spiritual Abuse: How To Break Free From Bad Church Experiences
  • How To Spot An Abusive Church
  • Identifying Spiritual Abuse
  • If It's Not In The Bible, Forget It
  • Into The Wild
  • Is Your Church A Safe Place?
  • It Hurts
  • Kingdom Grace (A Series Of Great Articles)
  • Leaving A Church And The Grief Process
  • Let Nothing Be Wasted
  • Narcissism In The Pulpit
  • Our Shepherd
  • Practicals On Spiritual Recovery
  • Real vs. Fake and Spiritual Abuse
  • Recovering From Spiritual Abuse (A Helpful Website)
  • Recovery From Spiritual Abuse: How You Can Help
  • Reveling In The Freedom To Follow
  • Scriptural Reasons For Leaving A Church
  • Shattered Trust (A Website For Staff Associates)
  • Should A Pastor Rule Over You?
  • Spiritual Abuse In The Pulpit and Pew
  • Spiritual Abuse Profile
  • Spiritual Abuse Recovery (When You Are Ready To Try Again: Going Back To Church)
  • Stages In Recovery
  • The Bible And Spiritual Abuse
  • The Heresy Of Mind Control
  • The Insidious Harm of Spiritual Abuse
  • The Language Of Enslavement
  • The Narcissistic Religious Leader
  • The Tale Of Four Poplars
  • The Yeast Of The Pharisees: Spiritual Abuse By Pastors And Counselors
  • Walking Away From Spiritual Abuse
  • Warning Signs
  • What Is Spiritual Abuse (View This Video)

More Helpful Articles

  • A Healthy Church
  • Aberrant Christianity
  • An Intelligent Faith: "Don't Check Your Brain At The Door"
  • Authority - The Most Widely Absued Form of Fear
  • Authority and Ministry In the Local Church
  • Being Told To "Get Over It and Move On!"
  • Beware of Spiritual Abuse
  • Church Leaders and Honorific Titles
  • Churchianity - An Insult To Christ
  • Dealing With Manilpulative People
  • Eight Distinctives Of An Aberational Group
  • False Leaders
  • Fear and Guilt: Recovering From Performance-Based Relationships
  • How Can I Discern Whether I am In a Healty or Abusive Fellowship
  • How Can We Recognize Spiritual Abuse?
  • How Spiritual Abuse Redefines Love
  • How To Discern Spiritual Abuse
  • How To Recognize A Controlling Person
  • Identifying A Cult
  • Learning To Say "No"
  • Leaving The Spiritually Abusive System - The Withdrawal Stages
  • Legalism
  • Nuts And Bolts Of Spiritual Abuse
  • Re-imagining Success In Ministry
  • Recovery From Spiritual Abuse
  • Recovery Issues
  • Relationship Checklist
  • Responsible Spiritual Leadership
  • Setting Boundaries
  • Shepherding God's Flock: The Abuse Of Authority By Leadership
  • Signed: Deep Pain (A Personal Story)
  • Signs Of Spiritual Abuse
  • Spiritual Abuse Recovery
  • Spiritual Abuse Survey
  • Spiritual Identity Crisis?
  • Stress Making Churches
  • The Code Of Silence (A Must Read)
  • The Path of Freedom
  • The Plague Of Counterfeit Leaders
  • The Power Abusers
  • The Road To The Right Conclusions
  • The Warning Signs of Toxic Religion
  • "They Told Me If I Left..."
  • Toxic Faith
  • Uncovering And Facing Spiritual Abuse
  • Warning Signs of Spiritual Abuse - (Part 1)
  • Warning Signs of Spiritual Abuse - (Part 2)
  • Warning Signs of Spiritual Abuse - (Part 3)
  • What Happens If Your Pastor Is Narcissistic?
  • What Is Spiritual Abuse?
  • What Language Does Your Church Speak?
  • What Makes A Religious Group A Cult?
  • When Has Authority Gone Too Far?
  • When To Leave....Think It Over

New Articles

  • Behind The Bars: Life In A Toxic Community Of Faith
  • Beware Of Wolves: You Shall Know Them By Their Fruits
  • Biderman's Chart Of Coercion
  • Controlling Relationships
  • Dealing With Manipulative People
  • Dealing With Manipulators
  • Defining Spiritual Abuse (A Collection Of Articles From The Blog "Under Much Grace")
  • Definition Of An Abusive Group
  • Finding True Friends In Christ
  • How Cults Work
  • How To Deal With Sociopaths
  • Identifying A Manipulator
  • Manipulative People: How To Deal With Them
  • Narcissism And The Dynamics Of Evil
  • Narcissistic Behavior
  • Profile Of A Sociopath
  • Profiling The Narcissist
  • Spiritual Abuse
  • Ten Signs Of Spiritual Abuse
  • The Con Artist Pastor
  • The Mask Of A Sociopath
  • The Psychopath: The Mask Of Sanity
  • Three Poisons For Love: Manipulation, Intimidation, And Domination
  • Voices From The Fringe
  • What's Happening To My Church?

Online Books

  • Churches That Abuse by: Ronald Enroth
  • Recovering From Churches That Abuse by: Ronald Enroth

I Recommend This DVD

  • Mind Control (A & E Special)

God's Love

  • Our Loving Father
  • The Father Heart of God
  • God's Unique Love
  • A Loving Father
  • The Father Heart of God (An Online Book)
  • God's Unconditional Love

Wikipedia Links

  • Sociopathy
  • Psychopathy
  • Spiritual Abuse

Helpful Study Links

  • Bible Gateway
  • Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary
  • Bible Versions and Translations
  • Bible in MP3
  • Internet Christian Library
  • The Evangelical Christian Library
  • Nave's Topical Bible
  • Complete Index of Scripture Studies
  • Topical Index of Scriptures
  • Topical Study Guide

Blogs I Visit

  • A Former Leader's Journey
  • Charismania
  • Clarity Rediscovered
  • DeTox Church Group
  • Forgetting the Former Things
  • Laidback Christian
  • Letters from Kamp Krusty
  • Lifestream Blog
  • Provender
  • re-Barr
  • The Autonomy of the Believer
  • The Bereans
  • Where is Character

Books I Recommend

  • Confronting Jezebel: Discerning And Defeating The Spirit Of Control
  • Pigs In The Pulpit
  • Snakes In The Pulpit
  • So You Don't Want To Go To Church Anymore
  • Spiritual Abuse Recovery
  • The God's Honest Truth
  • The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse

Websites I Visit

  • Church Exiters
  • Grace Roots
  • Hillsongs United
  • I'm Listening
  • Spiritual Abuse Recovery Resources
  • The Basement
  • The God Journey
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