In the House of Friends: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse in Christian Churches
Kenneth J. Garrett, "In the House of Friends: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse in Christian Churches"
English | ISBN: 1725266024 | 2020 | 126 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1725266024 | 2020 | 126 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
There is a place that promises acceptance, spiritual growth, and friendship, but instead delivers criticism, abuse, and exploitation. A place that declares marriages will be strengthened, treasured, and protected, but instead weakens, diminishes, and marginalizes them. A place that claims to obey the word of God, but in practice weaponizes the word against those who disagree or doubt. A place where the good news of a tenderhearted, loving Savior is blurred by leaders who are controlling, traumatizing, and self-serving. A place that calls loudly to the storm-tossed at sea, only to lure them to the rocks where they flounder and fall apart. A place that appeared to be a house of friendship but was a place of betrayal.
That place might be a Christian church. It might be a cult. It is probably both.
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