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seekingglory
Junior Member
Username: seekingglory
Post Number: 45
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 24.162.133.4
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 10:08 pm: | 
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In biblical times and now, abuse of authority involves a harmful and destructive pattern of leadership that diverts organizational power for personal use at the expense of others.
A culture of fear. Such abuse of authority thrives in a culture whose people fear one another. Leaders are afraid of losing power. Subordinates know the danger of confronting those in authority. Loyalty is emphasized to distract from what is really happening. Mutual intimidation lies just under the surface of what seems safe to talk about or question.
A culture of confusion. In church or groups, leaders sometimes use spiritual language that implies they have a private line to God. The result is that the group learns to hear the teaching or prayerful decisions of leadership as if they were listening to God. Such confusion leads to trouble.
A culture of control and exclusion. When spiritual overseers are not held accountable to fair process and well-defined checks and balances, they can impose their will in ways that go beyond their rightful sphere of control. Such leaders may remove a noncompliant person from the group, not for the sake of the organization but as a means to protect their own leadership. By threatening exclusion for noncompliance, leaders can require submission in matters that are more personal than public, more cultural than biblical, and more arbitrary than fairly reasoned. Ironically, abusive leaders often suggest that their own accountability to God places them above criticism and question, without granting the same freedom to others.
In the noise and commotion of such abuse, phrases like “touch not the Lord’s anointed” or “obey them that have the rule over you” are used, not to promote a healthy fear of the Lord but rather an unhealthy fear of men.
Hey folks of HH. Does the above look and sound awfully familiar? Yes it does!!! |
foreverhis
Intermediate Member
Username: foreverhis
Post Number: 283
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 12.162.187.97
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 11:55 pm: |
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Yes it is awfully familiar. |
missionary_lady
Senior Member
Username: missionary_lady
Post Number: 1390
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 172.144.191.46
| | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 5:41 pm: |
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too much wrong use of "touch not mine annointed" that passage HAS nothing to do with HH... |
praxaluh
Advanced Member
Username: praxaluh
Post Number: 640
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 24.193.219.212
| | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 6:34 pm: |
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Hi Folks,
Here is a bit of the beautiful section of scripture which is in Psalm 105. Extracting a bit from 1 Chronicles 16 which uses Psalm 105 and some other verses. The context is the joyous ministering and song and worship on the return of the Ark of the Covenant.
1 Chronicles 16:7-12
Then on that day David delivered first this psalm
to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his
brethren.
Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name,
make known his deeds among the people.
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of
all his wondrous works.
Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them
rejoice that seek the LORD.
Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face
continually.
Remember his marvellous works that he hath done,
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
16:15-23
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word
which he commanded to a thousand generations;
Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham,
and of his oath unto Isaac;
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law,
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan,
the lot of your inheritance; When ye were but few,
even a few, and strangers in it.
And when they went from nation to nation, and from
one kingdom to another people;
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he
reproved kings for their sakes,
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my
prophets no harm.
Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from
day to day his salvation.
Shalom,
Praxaluh |
missionary_lady
Senior Member
Username: missionary_lady
Post Number: 1391
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 172.145.182.73
| | Posted on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 1:44 am: |
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notice HIS Covenant and not a covenant to HH or the watch tower or any man made organization... |
missionary_lady
Senior Member
Username: missionary_lady
Post Number: 1392
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 172.145.182.73
| | Posted on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 1:46 am: |
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notice HIS Covenant and not a covenant to HH or the watch tower or any man made organization... |
missionary_lady
Senior Member
Username: missionary_lady
Post Number: 1615
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 200.147.6.111
| | Posted on Monday, January 01, 2007 - 2:00 am: |
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bump |
praxaluh
Advanced Member
Username: praxaluh
Post Number: 795
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 74.73.4.159
| | Posted on Monday, January 01, 2007 - 7:08 am: |
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In a very real sense God has today
"went from nation to nation,
and from one kingdom to another people"
amongst the Christian world, looking for a people who would be dedicated 100% unto Him, whose praises would not be mixed with hidden sin, whose worship would be pure and holy, whose ministry could be in a peaceable inheritance-land.
We know that most 'Christian' fellowships have eschewed this pathway. Too hard. Too burdensome. Too much material prosperity with crystal cathedrals and conferences and jets and speaking tours and public and media acclaim. Pablum prosperity. And the false doctrines like OSAS or its charismatic and pentecostal equivalents have made many somnambulistic, walking through motions of church and fellowship and community, sans depth or Godly power. Only the form thereof.
HH chose another pathway.
They have truly taken God's covenant call to heart.
Are they the only ones ?
Where are the myriad thousands who truly seek God,
or is Gideon's army only the dedicated few ?
Could they stumble at times in their seeking to follow God ?
Is there really any way of truth short of such dedication ?
These are the questions of some interest, some substance. For consideration, offered with respect and honor. And if there are a 1000 or even a dozen or even one other fellowship and community being raised up with such purity and honor and sanctity, Lord Jesus allow us to know who they are. We will hold them in honor as well as God brings His people together, and shows -
'that they which are approved may be made manifest among you'.
Let us first see the imperative, the necessity, of a people being dedicated 100% to God. Then let us each consider.
Give thanks unto the LORD,
call upon his name,
make known his deeds among the people.
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him,
talk ye of all his wondrous works.
Glory ye in his holy name:
let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face
continually.
Sing unto the LORD, all the earth;
shew forth from day to day his salvation.
Thank you Lord Jesus for the ensample of a people seeking to shew forth day to day your salvation.
Shalom,
Praxaluh |
missionary_lady
Senior Member
Username: missionary_lady
Post Number: 1618
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 200.147.54.53
| | Posted on Monday, January 01, 2007 - 12:00 pm: |
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Thank Jesus for the millions who praise Him in His holiness across the earth...the incountable number of the saved that John saw...
Don't be so onesided.... |
seekingglory
Intermediate Member
Username: seekingglory
Post Number: 117
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 24.162.130.158
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 8:32 pm: |
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People generally join Homestead Heritage because of a perceived path to honor God, to improve their personal walk with Jesus and to care for others through the form of community. These folks are generally most often altruistic, trusting persons who may be somewhat naïve. The majority are unaware of the method Homestead uses to recruit, school, and retain members. By using the enticements of a unique fellowship within a special community they employ thought reform processes that affect the decision making and commitments of the person who enters and stays. The techniques and methods Blair Adams uses and promotes creates a vast range of consequences—psychological, spiritual, social, and financial—suffered by those dominated and controlled by this man gone astray on a personal power trip.
Blair and his ‘elders’ use guilt, fear, and intimidation to control the members. They employ the 10 basic methods as seen in so many abusive churches; control-oriented leadership, spiritual elitism, manipulation of members, perceived persecution, life-style rigidity, emphasis on experience, suppression of dissent, harsh discipline of members, denunciation of other churches, and the infliction of painful exit processes. Any person with HH membership experience can testify that the leaders of HH use all ten of these methods. Blair and Howard teach members to accept values and conduct that modify reality. Whatever they want to do is taught as doctrine. I can just hear Blair saying to himself many years ago, “if I create a community that obeys my rules, these rules are then reality, and if I declare myself a pastor I can put God's imprimatur on my wishes, my fantasies, my desires." How can he get away with it? He simply sets up a system where he is accountable to no one and therefore beyond confrontation
Once a person is able to break free from HH then healing must occur. Finding confidence again to approach group or church affiliation and overcoming distorted spirituality are part of a long list of problems to sort out and deal with on the path to recovery. Prax would have you believe that this church is innocent of all charges and most posters here are spiritually dead. But without knowing the heart of any of the posters it is possible to draw a conclusion to all this by remembering..................
Any group that leaves a trail of broken people should be avoided. There is something fundamentally wrong with a church that has destroyed the lives of so many people. |
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