In this workshop, Doug and Wendy Duncan draw upon their experiences trying to reintegrate into healthy, mainstream Christianity after a long-term involvement in a Bible-based cult to describe what ministers, churches, and individual believers did that was and was not helpful to them. They will emphasize some common mistakes that were made and suggest alternative approaches to minister to people recovering from cultic or spiritual abuse.

Rafael Martinez, The Fivefold Ministry and Spiritual Abuse: A Pentecostal's Perspective               

Has the charismatic concept of a literal "Five-Fold Ministry" (Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers and Evangelists) been exploited and perverted into a terrible source of profoundly traumatic spiritual abuse? In this workshop a Pentecostal provides his analysis of such abuses that are transpiring. The workshop will also examine the abuses of such teaching and respond to them in the Biblical context.

Rafael Martinez, The Fivefold Ministry and Spiritual Abuse: A Pentecostal's Perspective               

Has the charismatic concept of a literal "Five-Fold Ministry" (Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers and Evangelists) been exploited and perverted into a terrible source of profoundly traumatic spiritual abuse? In this workshop a Pentecostal provides his analysis of such abuses that are transpiring. The workshop will also examine the abuses of such teaching and respond to them in the Biblical context.