Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught in the
virtually invisible web of religious captivation in the churches
they attend, the ministries they are under, and the networks they
are aligned with and don't know it These faithful followers of
Christ are unaware victims of spiritual abuse, psychological
enslavement, and emotional exploitation perpetrated under the
heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the
leadership of the church-group of which they are a part is
dominating, controlling, manipulating, and exploiting their
followers for their own personal gain and private kingdom-building.
Without realizing the spiritual effect of what they are doing,
myriads of sincere and faithful followers of Christ, in submitting
themselves and surrendering their God-given right to
self-governance or personal autonomy unto their spiritual leaders,
have become "slaves of men" in violation of God's explicit warning
against such: "DO NOT BECOME SLAVES OF MEN " (1 Cor. 7:23).
Frequently, in groups employing such hyper-authoritarian practices,
adherents codify their willful enslavement by signing
biblically-prohibited "covenants" with their leaders requiring them
to effectively surrender their free-will unto their spiritual
taskmasters and granting them the right to intervene in and make
decisions regarding the mundane matters of their lives.
Authoritarian abuse (aka, "spiritual abuse") is one of the most
widespread and troubling problems facing the Church today. Indeed,
the truth is that ecclesiastical enslavement and exploitation is
pandemic in many sectors of 21st Century Christendom, though those
churches and ministries employing it go to great lengths to
disguise and conceal it. What makes the pandemic problem even more
insidious is that many of the perpetrators and proliferators of
these spiritually repressive teachings and techniques are
respected, and in some cases revered, spiritual leaders. Moreover
these autocratic systems of religious hegemony are being imposed in
church-groups espousing orthodox Christian beliefs, whose
membership is comprised of a cross section of average
Americans-individuals and families-of every race, education level,
station, status, and vocation, rather than radical, fringe
religious sects and cults as many uninformed people would suppose.
Though religious predomination is certainly nothing new, and
hyper-authoritarianism is by no means limited to the
Neo-Pentecostal branch of the Church, it has especially flourished
in Charismatic and other Neo-Pentecostal groups since it was
infused into the very fabric, foundation, and functions of that
branch of the Church in the early- to mid-seventies through the
auspices of what became known as the "Discipleship or Shepherding
Movement." The doctrines and practices spawned in that false
movement remain an integral part of the operations of many churches
and groups yet today Indeed, what many do not understand is that
with the emergence of the plethora of "networks" now in existence,
there is an invisible web of interrelated organizations that
secretly control and direct everything substantive that goes on in
the realm of Neo-Pentecostal churches, including "approving" or
"blacklisting" ministers and leaders who refuse to submit to the
secret "Charismatic chain-of-command." Written from an "insider's"
perspective by an inveterate, respected Charismatic minister and
lettered theologian, who is consulted by the media as an expert on
Christian cults, Charismatic Captivation, has been appraised and
praised by ministers, scholars, theologians, church leaders, and
laymen as one of the most comprehensive as well as convincing
volumes written to date on the prevalent problem of authoritarian
abuse, yet without the "Charismatic-bashing" in which other books
citing Neo-Pentecostal abuses often engage.
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