Advice When Facing Spiritual Abuse

Almost a year ago on our family blog, my husband Tom highlighted an excellent series of posts from the Wittenberg Gate called “Controlling Personalities in the Church”.

This month, WG featured an excellent post from Rev. Reed DePace, PCA, entitled “Advice When Facing Spiritual Abuse” regarding the difficult task of confronting others – and what to do if that person is in a position of authority over you.

DePace starts out by saying that our responsibility “to love to one another requires helping one another with shortcomings” and goes on to mention a helpful list of Biblical insights to consider when confronting specific areas of spiritual abuse.

While it’s written about situations in the church, I think that it would also be a helpful resource for addressing problems in the workplace or elsewhere when confronting someone in a position of authority. The post is so thorough, I believe its worth printing or bookmarking for future reference.