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Bible-believer your story is very similar to that of the blind man in John 9. He testified that Jesus healed his sight, and look what happened to him. Like the Judaizers of old, the Recovery leaders hold their own people in morbid fear. Fear is an extremely powerful weapon that evil people in authority use to manipulate others.
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I’ve struggled a lot with the idea of so much deception being mixed in with so much good, and also with the abuse of power among leaders who claim to represent God, as we all here have experienced and observed.
So I definitely took notes recently when our pastor said, “The abuse of power is part of our rebellion going back to the first lie accepted in the garden: ‘You can be like God.’” Boom!