Bitter Fruit

By: Keith Gordon Ford

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Paperback | 17 June 2021

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No church founder or planter likely intends to start a church with the stated goal of allowing abuse or abusing those within it. Yet sadly and too often, even in the best of churches abuse does occur. The bitter fruit of abuse does not appear from nowhere. Its origins, the soil in which it grows, and the structures that support it need be understood if we are to eradicate this fruit from within our churches and Christian organizations. Bitter Fruit: Dysfunction and Abuse in the Local Church describes those psychologies, social psychologies, and inadequate theologies that are frequently true in churches that enable abuse, regardless of the form the abuse may take. It is vital that you understand these things if you are a pastor, leader, or lay person seeking to maintain a healthy church environment.

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“Sadly, this book is all too relevant, exploring dysfunction and abuse within the local church. Drawing from painful personal experience, Keith Ford highlights the importance of speaking prophetically into toxic scenarios, and the cost this often incurs. Noting that criticizing is easy, he elevates the conversation, for while the book addresses sobering topics, it does so in a way that is life serving and hope filled. Bitter Fruit is well worth the read.”
—Brian Harris, Director of Avenir Leadership Institute

“Experiencing a traumatic four-way church split in the 1970s brought on a crisis of faith. Was Christianity false—or was something desperately wrong with that toxic church’s leading, teaching, structuring? There were no books on spiritual abuse recovery until fifteen years later. I know now Bitter Fruit is exactly the kind of solid overview of abuse symptoms, sources, systemic solutions, and health sustainability I needed then, and that the church needs now!”
—Brad Sargent, author of Futuristguy blogs and case studies on spiritual abuse

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