TOXIC CHURCHES AND CHURCH LEADERS
Are you in a toxic church, or sitting under the teaching of a toxic church leader?
Do
you know how to identify if you are in a toxic church or have a toxic church
leader? Do you want to know how to get free from
a toxic church or toxic
church leader? Then, these YouTube Videos and Web Sites may be for you!
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YouTube video, click on the Blue Text Link!
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Beliefnet.com (5
types of toxic Christians you may meet)
Carey Nieuwhof (7 warning signs your church culture is toxic)
Christianity (How should
Christians respond to toxic positivity within the church?)
Christianity Today (130 signs of toxic church leadership)
Church Answers (Fourteen
symptoms of toxic church)
Faithit.com (10 types of toxic church members)
Patheos (How toxic Christians are destroying Christianity
from the inside)
Probe (Abusive churches: leaving them behind - a biblical perspective)
The Christian Post (How to recover
from a toxic church and bounce back even better)
USA Today (Evangelicals need to focus on church's sexual abuse epidemic, not
just Trump or drag queens)
9Marks (Some counsel for Christians leaving toxic church environments)
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD
A
Judeo-Christian Bible Study
"Be strong and of
a good courage, fear
not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is
that doth go with
thee; he will
not
fail thee, nor
forsake thee”
(Deuteronomy 31:6).
"I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God
beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
That they may
know from the rising of the sun, and from
the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD,
and there is none else. I form the
light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let
the skies pour
down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring
forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together;
I
the LORD have created it. Woe unto him that striveth
with his Maker! Let the potsherd Strive with the potsherds
of the earth. Shall
the clay say to him that fashioneth it,
What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?"
(Isaiah 45:5-9).
"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own:
but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that
I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have
kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him
that
sent me”
(John 15:18-21).
“There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used
deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes”
(Romans
3:11-18).
FALSE PROPHETS AND TEACHERS
SERVE THEIR OWN BELLY
“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause
divisions and offences
contrary to the doctrine which ye
have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve
not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own
belly; and by
good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts
of the simple”
(Romans 16:17-18).
BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. Ye shall know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so
every good tree bringeth forth
good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth
forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can
a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall
know them"
(Matthew 7:15-20).
