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[AgathaL'Orange]

Yes.  I've talked to your kids.  Multiple pastors.  Multiple families.  Yes.  They are still traumatized by your physical abuse masquerading as "discipline". 

Get out.  Get therapy.  Heal the relationships.  Apologize.  Realize the roots are deeper than just wanting obedient kids but are a DIRECT REFLECTION on your involvement with the Great Commission.  How?

GC insists on Groupthink.  It insists on personally sanctifying yourself and children.  It asks the impossible in so many ways.  It thrives on fear and control.  It festers without the light of the worldwide body of Christ to shine upon it.  You sit in your little cesspool in the corner with only GC teachings, only GC pastors, only GC conferences.  The blanket land in the back of the room, where little children start out being blanket trained so that they can more adequately be brainwashed from a young age, and so that young mothers begin to think that little children ARE supposed to sit on blankets without getting off for long periods of time.

You ask things of your children that are wrong.  You ask things of your children that are not age appropriate.  You ask your children to think of you as God.  You answer to your leaders and each other instead of God.

If you listened to God, you would stop beating your children and making them sit on blankets.  You would stop giving them a snake instead of food and a stone instead of bread.  You would love your kids and take them to the park and read them Madeline instead of some stupid devotional.  Grow UP, GC parents!  GROW UP! 

Stop beating your children.  Now.  You are hurting them, harming their relationships with their future wives and children.  Harming their relationships with themselves and with you.  Loving and aware parents do not beat their children.  They do not encourage others to beat their children.


Stop.  If you can't stop all of the other nonsense, at least stop this, and the sooner the better.  Seek out other advice.  Seek out advice from people who actually know a thing or two about children.



Love your kids, play with them, have fun with them, be reasonable, have dreams for them that are GOOD for them, teach them, let them have friends, let them dance and listen to music, let them just be.