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13 Suggestions on Recovering from a Cult-Like Church

  • Sarah Hamaker Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
  • Updated Feb 23, 2023

Do you love your pastor? Many of us do in a healthy way, enjoying strong biblical teaching brought by a man who spends time in God’s Word and preaches the Gospel to his congregation. But sometimes, the minister hasn’t been a faithful follower of Jesus and has led his flock astray by becoming more important to the men and women in the pews than Christ himself. In those cases, that particular church might have morphed into more like a cult than a gathering of believers. If you’ve recently left a church that either was a cult or had cult-like practices, recovering from that experience will take time. Here are some general suggestions for helping you to deal with the aftermath—and get on the road to recovery.

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sarah hamaker author bio picSarah Hamaker is a national speaker and award-winning author who loves writing romantic suspense books “where the hero and heroine fall in love while running for their lives.” She’s also a wife, mother of two teenagers and two college students, a therapeutic foster mom, and podcaster (The Romantic Side of Suspense podcast). She coaches writers, speakers and parents with an encouraging and commonsense approach. Visit her online at sarahhamakerfiction.com.

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