Here are some of the best books on the market today for anyone who has been, or is presently involved in an abusive church environment.
For the individual who has broken free; for the person who is still trapped in the "system" and cannot escape; and for the actual abusers themselves who are caught up in their "authority gone wild," these books will stir your soul. They are excellent.
You will not be disappointed.
Check them out at your local Christian book store, or they are available right now on amazon.com.
(Amazon.com has probably the best price available anyway. For your convenience, I placed the link for the books to go straight to amazon. Just highlight your mouse over the book cover and "click.")
"THE SUBTLE POWER OF SPIRITUAL ABUSE" by David Johnson & Jeff VanVonderen
This book shows how people get hooked into abusive systems; the impact of controlling leadership on a congregation; and how the abused believer can find rest and recovery.
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A bestselling novel presenting the hypocrisy of Christian legalism and a man's search for the only surviving member of his family.
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RECOMMENDED READING
No stone is left uncovered. A thorough historical survey of the first 300 years of church history and verse by verse studies of key chapters adds compelling evidence as to why tithing is a false teaching for today. This book will help loosen the bonds of financial voo-doo that the many churches preach today. It’s a book that your pastor will hate, but that you will love.
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Also, a great book exposing the evils of tithing in the church today
"SHOULD THE CHURCH TEACH TITHING" A Theologian's Conclusions about a Taboo Doctrine by Russell Earl Kelly, Ph.D.
"Legalism is a perversion of true Christianity, and one that needs to be examined by every believer," explains the author. "Legalism hurts families. Always. Eventually."
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What happens when you reject the teachings of Scripture and the example of the apostles?
A recipe for tyranny.
"Obey them that have the rule over you and submit." What does this REALLY mean?
"Stated
Meetings"
"Stated Meetings?" Where is this found in the Bible?
Some recommended materials that you can read immediately:
Should church leaders "bind the consciences" of God's people to care for their pastors? What saith the Scriptures?
Read why "c-h-u-r-c-h" has evolved into something else!
The local institutional church has become a cesspool of human iniquity; a quandary of religious bondage to the whims of men. Heed the warnings HERE.
Read how these serial killers of the soul operate
each and every week.
Who are the "MANY" who prophesy, cast out demons, and do many wonderful works in Jesus' name? Who is Jesus REALLY warning us about? Is anyone listening?
When loyalty to, or dependence upon, any church or any "church leader" ever comes close to being equal to your loyalty and love to your husband, then you are so sick spiritually that you can't think straight.
Jesus, the King, “delegating His authority” to so-called church rulers, HAS NO BASIS IN SCRIPTURE WHATSOEVER, and this publication will prove it to you.
Is "skipping church a bad idea and spiritually dangerous?"
This article examines and exposes this unbiblical hot air and
blows it out of the water.
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Then, “the pastor” (Pastor John) died and stood before God. And then, God said......
Jesus never held regularly
scheduled meetings.
So when a “local institutional church” meets together, what does that
mean specifically?
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“Pastors” and their “churches” will destroy a person to keep their religious system going.
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Why People Don’t See
I believe it was a Catholic theologian who once said, "Give me a child for the first seven years of his life and I will make him a Catholic for life."
There is much more truth to this statement than most of us care to recognize. Those early years are formative years for sure. Yet, they need not be limited to a child.
Unwary adults are also so often susceptible, and in many ways, even more so!
These years, whatever their age, are great opportunities for religious leaders to plant fears that will keep a person in bondage to their particular religious system for life, or keep a person from looking at anything else for fear of being deceived.
This is also a great opportunity to implant concepts which will actually keep someone from ever seeing the Truth, even though the Truth may be right before their very eyes.
When a particular church doctrine is implanted into a person’s mind with vivid graphic pictures, a handful of out-of-context scriptures, add a little fear, shouting and pulpit-pounding, throwing in the phrase “obey your leaders,” and when that same person reads plain Bible texts that say just the opposite, they will NEVER be able to clearly see what is directly in from of them.
They will see the text through the filters that were put on their mind. They will not be able to see the text as it really is.
Mission accomplished!
How so many times I have heard a Scripture read in a “church service” that clearly and completely contradicts one of their main teachings and no one ever comments about the contradiction. How so many times I have heard hymns sung from the church hymnal that speaks blasphemies and yet the people do not hear, they do not see, or really even believe what is said.
There was a time perhaps when they DID asked those hard questions, but when they were rebuked, or ridiculed, or shamed, for asking questions that caused division, they learned not to question anymore.
They learned to go along with the crowd.
The scales over the eyes are so thick that everything including their concept of God and Scripture becomes gross darkness.
But they do not know it is darkness because they have been seeing that way for many, many years.
If you cannot defend your theology with Scripture, do you then resort to “quoting the church fathers?”
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