Since Curious touched on the soul/spirit thing, I'll say what I was going to say about your statement: "I am scared by how all encompassing this ministry is tangling its way all through my mind emotion and will when shouldn't it have just spread through out my spirit?"
There is a well-known cult expert named Steven Hassan (he wrote the book "Combatting Cult Mind Control", among others) who created what he calls the "BITE model". BITE stands for:
B - behavior
I - information
T - thought
E - emotion
These are four areas that controlling, unhealthy groups use to control people. Unhealthy, abusive groups use certain tactics to control their members' behavior, control information, control how the members think, and control members' emotions.
Notice that if your behavior, thought, and emotions are controlled......that's your whole soul (if we take Lee's teaching that the mind/emotion/will comprise the soul). Behavior can correspond to will (how you decide or choose to behave), thoughts correspond to mind, and emotions of course correspond to emotions.
All of these BITE tactics can be found in the local church. All of them can be found in the ministry and/or are spoken by the co-workers. The full details can be found at Steven Hassan's site here:
https://freedomofmind.com/bite-model/
You'll notice that there are some severe examples listed, such as kidnapping, beating, etc. Not all the examples will apply. If you want me to provide some specific examples (i.e. call out some that apply and provide the LC parallel, let me know and I'll be happy to do so if it helps clarify what I'm saying). But there are more than enough that DO apply that let us know what's going on in the LC.
They use known psychologically controlling tactics.
That's not the genuine church.
So the reason it all feels tangled up in you is because it was designed to be that way. Which means it will take some time, some effort, some frustration, some failing, some learning, some realizing, and some re-wiring for it to get untangled and pulled out of you. There are a lot of teachings in the local church that desperately need to be tossed out because they are causing real, current, deep, and repeated distress to saints inside of it even as I type this and as you read it.
The flip side of this is also that we are human beings created with a mind. God has a mind, and we were created in His image. We are not supposed to get out of our mind, or have things happen in our spirit while our mind is left unattended. Our minds are made to be lit up, switched on, active, running, whirring, processing, and all the more so when we are involved in spiritual activities. Man is a living soul, not a living spirit. Our soul is supposed to be operational. If two people passed by you on the street, and you overheard one of them say to the other "yeah, my boss is out of his mind".....that's not a compliment about his boss. Someone "being out of their mind" is not a good thing.
And it's not a good thing for us either. As believers we are called to discern, to test, to hold teachings up to scripture, to be sober-minded, to be on guard for wolves. We can only do this if our mind is involved along with our spirit.