Are you discouraged from questioning the decisions or teachings that church leaders make?
If you do little or no volunteer work for the church, do you feel like a second-class Christian?
Does your pastor insist on being addressed by a title such as "Dr." or "Pastor"?
Do you hear many broad, vague appeals to "surrender fully," "yield completely," or "lay it all on the altar"?
Are public reports about various ministry activities sometimes exaggerated?
Do church members feel safe talking only about past victories, not present struggles?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may be a victim of spiritual abuse. Many of us have gone through bad church experiences that have left us feeling like failures.

Blaming ourselves, we asked for God's forgiveness, but felt distant from the church and sometimes from God, too. In this teaching, we develop how Jesus discussed spiritual abuse and how to grow past it.