What is Spiritual Abuse?
Great conversation here. It adds some definitions to a term we often throw around these days in our church community.
What is Spiritual Abuse?
Spiritual abuse has been defined in a somewhat nebulous way. The term has been (over)used to cover any abuse that happens within the parameters of a church or ministry. Thus Christians tend to be defensive when spiritual abuse is mentioned.
Abuse, by definition is:
- to use wrongly or improperly; misuse
- to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way
- to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign
- to commit sexual assault upon.
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