STEM Press Number: WC.C047

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Publisher: Baker/Bethany

ISBN: 0764201379

Description: The term “spiritual abuse” describes situations in a church or church-based organization where seemingly spiritual means are used by authority figures — but used against church members with the real agenda of the authority figures being an attempt to meet their own needs for importance, power, intimacy, or spiritual gratification. As a result, church members feel manipulated, used and shamed. Many church members then leave the abusive church, feeling manipulated, controlled, shamed, or condemned.

Some of this book’s insightful, practical, and Scripturally-grounded topics include:
• How spiritual abuse develops — and why those under its grip often don’t see it
• Scriptural help in recognizing healthy spiritual relationships
• Effective strategies for escaping abusive situations
• The subtle ways that leaders and systems “hook” and control believers, robbing them of their joy in Christ

These two pastors/authors of a thriving suburban church offer effective means for dealing with the devastation of spiritual abuse. 234-pg paperback.