So many people that I have encountered after leaving the Charismatic Episcopal Church have all felt as if they needed to be de-programmed as if they left a cult.
It turns out that many of us were lied to about the goings on of the organization. That others were manipulated into staying even longer than they had initially hoped. Some were being asked to give detailed reports of their salaries, housing, and other benefits so that the Bishop could know how much to expect for their tithe.
I was personally shamed for not consulting “the brothers” about buying a new house. I was also taken to task for not consulting “the brothers” on when and where to take my vacation.
All this control has created havoc in the lives of so many that I have come into contact with. It’s shocking once you get on the other side to see how much control some Bishops wanted to exert over those in their cathedral.
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August 9, 2007 at 12:37 pm
seraph
This is absolute poppycock…..I have been in the CEC since 1994 and never, ever, ever have heard of such a thing! Shame on whoever allowed any church official to intrude thus on their personal life and kept their mouth shut about it …..this is the US, not some iron curtain country during the cold war….and the CEC a tiny denomination with no temporal power, no Office of the Inquisition and no way to enforce such control. Yes there is plenty of dysfunction to go around but this is barely credible…sorry !
seraph