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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:39 am Post subject: How to Spot an Abusive Church |
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How to Spot an Abusive Church
Charisma News Service/November 22, 2002
http://www.rickross.com/reference/fundamentalists/fund97.html
Thousands of Christians have given up on going to church because of the spiritual abuse they have suffered as part of another congregation, says a pastor who offers warning signs that a pastor may be too controlling. In "Exposing Spiritual Abuse," Mike Fehlauer says that the problem is "rampant and more widespread than we have wanted to believe," and relates several horror stories of the way some pastors have exercised inappropriate power and control over their church members. |
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