Thanks for speaking up. Many people are in churches that are not TOV churches, and will never be told all the truth. You have spoken to many of us for whom promised transparency will never come. Do not accept another Elder in your church until they tell you what God is saying to the church in I Timothy 5:20-21 (and maybe even 19). If there is an hint to their answers lining up with the first chapters of this book...do not stay unless you are specifically called to minister to change within the Elders of the church. They will not become a TOV church until they deal with their "secret" leadership. God can change anything for all is possible with Christ, but beware of the church that is not TOV but thinks it is. Read the second half of the book to find out what God really wants in a TOV church community. Thanks again.

Powerful insight as to what a church community should be and what happens when it loses sight of its purpose.

This book focuses on what makes a church good and not abusive. The book mentions about what every church should have in place to report spiritual abuse. The authors write about how spiritual abuse presents itself and the results of spiritual abuse. Spiritual abuse happens by those we trust and is an evil like few others. Jesus dealt with the spiritual abusers and we often think it being somewhere else but in the church we attend. It can be in front of us and we can completely miss it. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 mention it. Notice what else accompanies it in verses 6-7.