Sexual abuse: any form of forced or unwanted sexual activity, including taking advantage of someone who can’t give consent (15yr olds). The perpetrator may use physical force (gun), make threats (threatening arrest), or use their position of authority.https://t.co/70sqieIUfx
— Emilie Dye (@Emilie_Dye) December 2, 2019
Biblical Justice from your kind caused a pedophile to walk free and a sexual predator to terrorize his victim for years. We have the receipts.
— #ChromeDome State Fan (@TheRealJoRo) July 17, 2018
It is NOT AN APOLOGY if you can’t identify what was done wrong and the consequences that resulted. Stop saying you are “sorry it happened”. Apologize for what your people did that LET IT happen. With specificity. MSU. USAG. USOC. #Churchtoo.https://t.co/iTietyTeHH
— Rachael Denhollander (@R_Denhollander) May 25, 2018
When working with any Christian leader who has abused power restoration should not be the goal or even on the table. The long, hard work of life-changing repentance is what matters.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) April 13, 2018
True repentance means being more concerned for the offended one rather than the self.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) May 11, 2018
— TheTruthAboutMoscow (@MoscowIdahoUSA) January 27, 2018
“Love your wife as Christ loves the church by making sure she does ALL her chores.”
Does he have a section on making sure she washes behind her ears and sits still in church?
— Jacob Denhollander (@JJ_Denhollander) March 21, 2018
While my heart breaks for the precious children, I could calmly face-shoot their abusive rapists, feeling nothing but recoil….then finish their sandwich. #KindnessIsNotWeakness pic.twitter.com/8OAHv21nKj
— Craig Sawyer ? (@CraigRSawyer) January 3, 2018
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A narcissist will use others. He will use you. He will exploit anything you have in the service of his ends.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) December 30, 2017
A narcissist pastor is a hireling, more concerned for his ego and his own starving self and skillful at shearing but not at feeding.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) December 30, 2017
When pastors blackmail. #churchtoo pic.twitter.com/Dq7KFBAnF2
— Natalie Greenfield (@NatalieGfield) December 19, 2017
Am seeing stars. That is exactly what it is. Blackmail—just one of the tools of an abuser & an abusing “pastor” They are blind and evil. God will not forsake you & He will hold them to account.
— Kim Anne ⚜️ (@kim1124) December 19, 2017
A narcissist requires constant feeding of love, adoration, approval and agreement with no memory of having just eaten.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) December 14, 2017
We are easily seduced by self-installed leaders and his trappings, his deified gifts, fed by our own hunger and longings.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) December 15, 2017
If you know someone who is abusing – expose it. Do not leave them in the darkness. You become complicit if you do.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) November 30, 2017
When humans are caught in sin, they will say anything to make it better, including using biblical language to keep life running normally, especially when there is a lot at stake.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) November 30, 2017
No system, no matter how godly its goal sounds, that carries within it oppression, silencing, de-humanizing, violence, abuse and corruption is healthy.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) November 17, 2017
A system can be so powerful and controlling that the actions of people look like insanity to an outsider.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) November 10, 2017
Claiming to represent Jesus while silently targeting and wounding those made in His image is a darkness that will eventually come to light.
— Boz Tchividjian (@BozT) October 18, 2017