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   Dr Jonathan Downie (multilingualchurch@theres.life)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:23:58 JST Dr Jonathan Downie

   As someone who suffered spiritual abuse, it's so healing to be in a healthy church.

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     Fu (fuat2mb@theres.life)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:23:56 JST Fu

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     @multilingualchurch if it isn't too triggering would you mind helping me understand what it means to be spiritually abused?

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     Dr Jonathan Downie (multilingualchurch@theres.life)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 17:33:16 JST Dr Jonathan Downie

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     • Fu

     @fuat2mb It's when spiritual leaders (pastors, ministers etc) use their position to abuse people psychologically. In my case, it involved all sorts of tricks to restrict or control my relationships with people outside the church, convincing me that being developed for leadership involved being molded to be like the pastor (rather than like Christ), being drawn in with promises of development and leadership and then those being pulled away and that repeated, being regularly torn down, etc.