Welcome to our blog site!
It's a small repository of articles surrounding spiritual abuse and unhealthy church dynamics.
Most mainstream churches include systems of checks and balances. Leaders are accountable to others, sometimes within the church and often within the denomination. Free churches, however, while being the perfect, and sometimes perhaps, only setting to explore a 'fresh move of God' or long neglected teaching and practice, are much more susceptible to the misuse of power. Especially those which are set up in a one-man-at-the-top hierarchy.
It's vital in such groups that accountability is sought. Preferably outside the group, but certainly within it. There ought to be systems in place that hold the Pastor accountable for his actions and for what is taught and practised in the community.
This site explores the dynamics of what commonly happens in churches when the Pastor is revered as a Man of God, but nevertheless becomes a law unto himself. The christian landscape is filled with churches which began so well, blessing so many, but eventually fall into unhealthy and finally cult-like practice. Some, indeed, become cults in the generally understood definition of the word.
I hope you find the articles here helpful. Do drop me a line or comment if you would like:
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