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
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
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
She gets it:
Toleration of sin, pretense, disease, crookedness or deviation from the truth means the system is in fact not the work of God.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) October 10, 2017
Any leader or person with power who does not bend down and bestow dignity is using the power God has given to serve themselves.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) September 28, 2017
Words, position and knowledge are three very common tools used to spiritually abuse another.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) September 28, 2017