If you are in an abusive relationship and think that God demands that you stay there…then you need to read this article.

A Cry For Justice

UPDATE Sept 2021: I have come to believe that Jeff Crippen does not practise what he preaches. He vilely persecuted an abuse victim and spiritually abused many other people in the Tillamook congregation. Go here to read the evidence. Jeff has not gone to the people that he spiritually and emotionally abused. He has not apologised to them, let alone asked for their forgiveness.

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I talk a lot about divorce these days.  To do so brands you in most Christian circles as a troublemaker at best and an enemy of Christ at worst.  I think that I am neither.  Well, I am a troublemaker to the extent that I trouble those who trouble victims of abuse by demanding that they have no right to divorce a spouse who is an abuser.  But then, like Elijah, I hope that I can say “I have not troubled Israel, but you have.”

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