Maria’s Reviews > Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning > Status Update

depressing book.... Jesus Christ, our Living Hope!!!!
Please have mercy!

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WARNING>>> Math.18:6
“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."

When churches adopt corporate, profit-driven models ----their focus from making faithful disciples ----to managing consumers. This strays far from the organic, relational community Jesus intended. The Bible describes the church as the spotless Bride of Christ, built on sacrificial love, not on brand-building 😢😢😢

avoid writing of misogynist authors Piper, Al Mohler and Joshua Harris
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...more than one teenage abuser was alleged to have been abused themselves within the church. 💔

Pedophilia is a "profund psychiatric disorder for which there is no proven cure"
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How different might my faith (and view of sin) have been if I'd understood Mary as a disciple, and not as she was os often cast, as a whore?
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another example of spiritual abuse and grooming 🤢

Headlines love hypocrites.
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