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Spirit Abuse Reference

Friesen, G. – Decision Making and the Will of God

decision makingDamaged Disciples: Casualties of Authoritarian Churches and the Shepherding Movement, Ron and Vicki Burks, 1992. Ron was taught to subject himself totally to his disciplers in the shepherding movement. Vicki was taught to submit to her husband. This is their story of struggling to break free and rebuild their lives. For Vicki, it is the story of rescuing her “self” from non-being. Ron later earned his PhD. in counseling and was on staff at Wellspring. Here is his dissertation, Cognitive Impairment In Thought Reform Environments. http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~rb267689/



Spirit Abuse Reference, Spiritual Abuse-Cults

VanVonderen-Ryan – Soul Repair

Soul Repair: Rebuilding Your Spiritual Life, Jeff VanVonderen, Dale and Juanita Ryan. The authors don’t pretend to have a silver bullet for spiritual malaise, but they give a lot of tools to use to rebuild a relationship with God – very thought provoking. This book is must-read if you are recovering from spiritual abuse!



This is a recommendation of Vanvonderen-Ryan’s work on Soul Repair. This book explains how to recapture spiritual health after a cult.

Spirit Abuse Reference

Hession – We would see Jesus

We Would See Jesus, Roy and Revel Hession,1958, re-issued by CLC in 2005. A brief read, a perennial classic that has withstood the test of time. Read the Amazon reviews.

Do you struggle with guilt or feel like God can’t accept you as you are? Tt’s easy to forget that nothing we do will make us more acceptable to God. Jesus came to set us free to serve Him in the freshness and spontaneity of the Spirit, and to receive the ABUNDANT blessing God has for us. Let your life be transformed as you learn to see Jesus, who is both the blessing and the way to that blessing – the menas and the end.



Narcissism

Narcissism Lovers of Self

Narcissism Lovers of Self

Topic: Narcissism Lovers of Self
By David Cox



My Tract on PC50 Narcissism versus Love

Narcissism is an unhealthy love of self. It is a focus that puts self’s interests and benefits above and beyond the needs of others. This is not the kind of love that God is. God sacrifices himself and his own for the benefits of others. God’s love is pure. It is good for all involved because even Jesus who dies on the cross is seen as receiving glory for himself because of his selfless love for mankind.

There is a matter of priorities in one’s thinking. God wants us to “get out of ourself”, that is to give up our own welfare for the welfare of others. Essentially this is what God is. God sacrificed Jesus on the Cross for our welfare, and this was a magestic manifestation of the nature of God. Continue reading Narcissism Lovers of Self →

False Prophet-Teacher

FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8

FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8

FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8
By David Cox

Summary: This study will investigate what the fruit (life and ministry) of a false prophet. This install will look at how the false prophet disobeys the Word of God, and the true prophet seeks to always obey God’s Word.



Continue reading FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8 →

Emergent Church

Detecting Emergent Churches Eschatology Part 4

Detecting Emergent Churches Eschatology Part 4

Detecting Emergent Churches Eschatology
Detecting if your church is an Emergent Church
By David Cox



This is our continuing examination of the Emergent Church movement, looking at what are the signs of the Emergent Church, so that we can detect if our church is going emergent. In this installment we look at the Emergent Church movement’s treatment of Eschatology.

Continue reading Detecting Emergent Churches Eschatology Part 4 →

False Prophet-Teacher

FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Repentance part 6

The Fruit of a False Prophet Repentance part 6

The Fruit of a False Prophet repentance part 6
By David Cox

Summary: This study will investigate what the fruit (life and ministry) of a false prophet. Part 6 of this series is simply an introduction and begins by contrasting a man of God’s fruit (piety and holiness) with the false prophet’s fruit (sin, not doing God’s will).

For an overview, see
False Prophets and Teachers Overview



Continue reading FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Repentance part 6 →