If you dialogue with a spiritually abusive leader or cult member, prepare to enter a mind warp. The rules of sense, reason, and accepted definitions go out the window and are replaced with jargon, …
Tag: Authoritarianism
Sunday Gathering 2/19/2017 – Spiritual Sounding Board Blog
Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format. -by Kathi *** Acts 3: 1 – 10
via SSB Gathering – February 19, 2017 — Spiritual Sounding Board
9 Marks/9 Marxists Pastors and Expense Paid Trips to T4G Despite Cash-Strapped Churches, Thou Art The Man blog
My loyal readers may recall that nine months ago I wrote an article titled “Despite Tight Budgets UAE 9Marks Pastors Travel To T4G Conference USA.” (Link) Now, nine months later and facing a serious budget deficit, senior pastor John Folmar had the nerve to ask members to give sacrificially! In the article, I took the…
Abusive Pastor Violates Restraining Order -The Divorce Minister blog
Saeed Abedini is the pastor released from the Iranian prison and embraced by Franklin Graham. His wife, Naghmeh, fought for his release for years then filed for divorce citing abuse issues in their marriage. Recently, Saeed was in court for violating a restraining order made on Naghmeh’s behalf (see article here). For the skeptics regarding…
Should Members Keep Giving Money to a Church That Refuses to Disclose the Pastor’s Salary – The Wartburg Watch blog
Don’t give money to churches that won’t disclose the salaries of their leaders.
via Should Members Keep Giving Money to a Church That Refuses to Disclose the Pastor’s Salary? —
The Hi-jacking of Ephesians 5:22 – Marie O’Toole’s blog
When the call to ‘submit’ is wielded like a weapon, it is a sure sign that the follow-up verses on “loving [you] wife as Christ loved the Church” are not being obeyed. Christ never intimidates or t…
Source: The Hi-jacking of Ephesians 5:22
Nevertheless, She Persisted – Jory Micah’s blog
Would anything get done without the persistence of determined women – even women who are willing to “break the rules” in the face of injustice? Would women have the right to vote if our great-grandmothers had not rebelled against men who were determined to keep vaginas out of the voting booth? Oh, does that offend you,…
Church Membership Covenants and Incorrect Legal Advice About Their Legality – The Wartburg Watch
Churches-you cannot legally pursue a member who resigns even if they are under church discipline. (1 of 2 posts)
John MacArthur’s Destructive Teachings – “No Divorce for Abuse” by Jeff Crippen/A Cry for Justice blog
Here is a “christian” man who commented on one of our older posts (read it here) on John MacArthur’s teaching that God does not permit divorce for abuse. We did not publish his comment there, because it is so incredibly cruel. But I believe it is proper to expose the depths of spiritual abuse found in […]
via This is Where John MacArthur’s “no divorce for abuse” Leads People like Don — A Cry For Justice
Church Membership Abuses at 9 Marks Churches by Dale for The Wartburg Watch blog
“9Marks churches are very dangerous places to attend church. The ones I had attended lacked love and integrity — two marks of a congregation of true worshipers (John 4:24)” writes Dale in his testimony
GBFSV SPIRITUAL ABUSE VICTIMS' RECOVERY 