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Tuesday
Mar082011

Revealing another side of spiritual abuse...

What is spiritual abuse?
To label something as “abuse” is a tricky thing. What constitutes abuse for one person may not for another. However, I’m going to use a definition of abuse that I think fits with our understanding of the good and noble heart.  It comes from The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, by Johnson and VanVonderan:

Spiritual abuse is the mistreatment of a person who is in need of help, support or greater spiritual empowerment, with the result of weakening, undermining or decreasing that person’s spiritual empowerment.

The authors go further:

Spiritual abuse can also occur when spirituality is used to make others live up to a ‘spiritual standard.’ This promotes external ‘spiritual performance,’ …or is used as a means of ‘proving’ a person’s spirituality.


This abuse may not even be intentional, but kills the heart, nonetheless.  And we often don't consider spiritual abuse's impact on our heart and our attempts to live from our new nature.

Here's how I define what spiritual abuse does to our new hearts:

Spiritual abuse:
Demanding that a person live like Jesus, while denying the new heart [and its supernatural resources] that makes living like Jesus possible. Shame and spiritual defeat are the inevitable result.

*This was excerpted from my free e-book called, Enough Is Never Enough.
FREE E-book - "ENOUGH IS NEVER ENOUGH - How spiritual abuse sabotages the heart" - by Jim Robbins

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