Former
Members Can't Be Pushed Into Churches Triggers
and Obstacles in Mainstream Churches My
Pain With Other Churches Was Great
They Wanted Me to Preach My
Experience With Small Town Churches
A
Relationship With God More Important Than Religion Churches
With Shouting Pastors
No portion of these writings may be used or reproduced in any manner
whatsoever. Also, be sure and read: Trauma With Another
Church (several writings) Note:
These writings are not to imply that ESN is against exiters attending good,
Christ-centered, biblically sound churches. What we speak out against
are practices of abuse, deception and
thought
reform used by religious
leaders in the name of God. However, because of the ecumenical movement,
the Word-faith movement,
the
church growth movement, compromise, the growing amount of worldliness and
liberalism--even the New Age and occult
(contemplative spirituality)--infiltrating into the Christian church, there are more
and more Christians today that
are having a hard time finding a good church. (See links under
Apostasy in the Church) This is compounded by the fact that it is a rare church that can even begin to
understand the experience that exiters of religious cults have endured.
(Read: Trauma with Another Church.) In spite of
this, God promises never to leave
those that are His. (Hebrews 13:5) If you are in Christ, you are already
in His church.
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