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Toxic Churches: Restoration from Spiritual Abuse

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This book spoke volumes to me from the very beginning, from the words, "abuse is the misuse of power" to the chapter on forgiveness. If anyone has ever been spiritually hurt by misused power, this book is very healing. Mr. Dupont points out that the power of Jesus had nothing to do with ego and everything to do with love. When ego takes the place of love, that ego can cause hurt beyond belief. One woman in this book had suffered post traumatic stress disorder because of someone's ego. She wasn't raped, or physically harmed, but she was hurt by those who unwittingly and wrongfully represented the body of Christ. BUT there is hope in this book in reminding us all to keep our eyes on Him.

This was great!!! Purely scriptural and I only disagreed once or twice on his applications (but hey! we never agree 100% on everything). But his scripture examples lead you to examine your own life too! He was not opinionated to the point of turning me away from the scripture.

I purchased Pastor Dupont's book because I've been through some abusive situations in the Christian community over the years. "Toxic Churches" is good at explaining some of the problems, but it doesn't do much to help folks who've been hurt to heal.

this book helped me in the sense of understanding some of the things going on in my own church and identifying those things as NOT GOD.
Thank goodness the old Pastor left and with it his abuse.
The healing has begun, and this book and others has really helped along the way.

I was somewhat disturbed by the Chapter in this book called, "Jezebels, Rebels, and Witches." It was tainted with a prejudice toward Pagans in its explanation of what Jezebels and Witches are. It would have been more advantages to the reader had the author focused on the behavior associated with these Old Testament figures instead of focusing on the Pagan religion itself. Paganism has been misunderstood by many - even to some of the Christian church fathers. Let's not add to that misunderstanding.