{"id":78634,"date":"2024-06-24T00:43:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=78634"},"modified":"2024-06-24T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:58:20","slug":"20-biblical-passages-on-spiritual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=78634","title":{"rendered":"20 Biblical Passages on Spiritual Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>This is Part 2 of a three-part series on spiritual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/06\/definitions-and-signs-of-spiritual-abuse\/\">Part 1, <em>Definitions and Signs of Spiritual Abuse<\/em><\/a>: Here I define spiritual abuse and share signs of spiritually abusive leadership. <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/06\/20-biblical-passages-on-spiritual-abuse\/\">Part 2, <em>Twenty Biblical Passages on Spiritual Abuse<\/em><\/a>: Here I collate and share biblical passages about spiritual abuse. Part 3: Here I collate, link to, and provide a brief summary of several resources on spiritual abuse.  <strong>Building a Biblical Theology of Spiritual Abuse<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Many times on social media we\u2019ll read a comment like,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhat Christian resources (books, booklets, articles, blog posts, podcasts) would you recommend for such and such topic (sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, depression, anxiety, etc.)?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good question. And if you know me, then you know I love to collate resources like that.<\/p>\n<p><em>However<\/em>, perhaps our first question could be,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhat scriptural passages and biblical principles would you recommend for developing a biblical theology of such and such topic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my focus in today\u2019s post. Without much commentary, I\u2019ll provide you with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My current collation of the most relevant biblical passages that we could use to develop a biblical theology of spiritual abuse.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Spiritual Shepherds, Unspiritual Wolves, and Abused Sheep<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build a biblical theology of spiritual abuse from twenty biblical passages on wolves in shepherd&#8217;s clothing.<br \/>\nThe post 20 Biblical Passages on Spiritual Abuse appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-78634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-uncategorized","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78637,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78634\/revisions\/78637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}