PART 1 When False Authority Finds You:

A Rude Awakening in American Charismatic Culture

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This word for the Christian Body ties in the My Ministry new article on EPHESIANS OFFICE TITLES ..as these are BIG into that.

“Into calling ‘good evil and evil good” Read the Isaiah 5:20 “woe”which was and is due to Chapters 1-3, which I have deduced might be  “Dense of mature perception.” which is based impure Psalm 115:4-8

EAGLES VS EVIL EYES..hard to tell at the present, due to Ishmael abysmal mixture

I wasn’t raised around ministry politics.
Not around prophetic posturing, public accusations, or church “gatekeeping.” I didn’t grow up under targeting, monitoring due  heavy pastoral control. Neither was I  surrounded by flashy personalities demanding submission. My walk with God began simple, honest, rooted in Jesus—not in titles or traditions.

So later, after celebrity and new traditions of Christian men relocated from the deep south into my non clubby area…That was when I first encountered public, loud, and aggressive accusations—especially against sincere, respectful women leaders—I was stunned.

What should have been a private conversation (Matthew 18:15–16; Galatians 6:1) was instead weaponized in the open. And no one blinked.

I Did Not Find “It.” It Found Me.

This spirit of targeting didn’t begin with something I said or did. It found me—and not just me. In a rural county in central Virginia, during a large, nameless charismatic worship revival, I watched it repeatedly single out calm, white, emotionally steady and rather healthy, also well traveled and socially, doctrinally mature women (mostly!) who were there to worship in peace. It didn’t matter if we were well-mannered, servant-hearted, or doctrinally balanced.

We were seen as threats.

Over time, it became clear: this wasn’t personal. It was cultural—a subculture of religious surveillance that tracks and targets leaders who don’t fit its mold. I’ve since identified the patterns across various charismatic movements:

• The Shepherding Movement’s hierarchical control

• The Salem Witch Trials’ accusatory spirit (spectral evidence, not relating, but avoiding but apparently Inner Reading (divining) my “personal life, mind,  calm new visitor motives, thirst”

• Old-time patriarchal suspicion rooted in poor, superstitious Southern tradition ad/’or the Old Timey Country Law Holler up in the ‘hills, where the Old Country Law Pastors checked for harlots and the superstitions of witches and many Jezebels. (TD Says “Many graduates of the Mountain William School of Theology…. white mentoring.. in this!”)

• Modern NAR “apostolic gatekeepers” mentality

• Aggressive prophetic networks (like certain strains within CI – Christian International)

• Hyper-authoritarian expressions in (certain Big Boss Authoritarian) Word of Faith and many hard scrabble Pentecostal groups (in the local area of smaller ministries, NOT knowing the TOP but I’ve been to EAGLE MOUNTAIN and surely THE TOP LEADERS KNOW MORE…I do NOT ever feel bad there.

• Ministries keeping Known Witch Lists  (2 Examples; Sr Pastor in Tampa, FL confirmed what I had long wondered about that “Did you know, the pastor said’ That that “Famous Charismatic Group in Florida keeps a Known Witch List in their national headquarters.)  NEXT: The genuine kind, smart late Dr John E Jones, Keisha Ministries a close board member and fine friend (in VA)  shared with me “that (the same  jump in public, name calling, divining occult, witch watching’ false) apostle ” a pastor OFTEN comes into our area pastor’s prayer meetings and and calls MANY people “witches.”
• That’s’ the life in Deep Grass Roots charismatic(hence I am OUT of being a charismatic as of 2012 DFW)( But this was the FIRST LARGE DOSE OF “Subjective Realms”  LEARNING CURVE)

These movements, while often gifted, can breed a toxic undercurrent of spiritual dominance, especially when led by unchecked personalities.

What I Observed—and What I Learned

I began to study it not out of judgment, but out of deep grief and concern. After 50 years of observing U.S. church leadership, I’ve come to recognize:

• This isn’t happening everywhere, and not every big-name leader condones it. Many of the top-level leaders I’ve met over the years are godly, respectful, and would never allow this kind of spiritual bullying.

• But at local levels, where small-town authoritarianism mixes with charismatic fervor, these patterns flourish—often undetected by denominational headquarters or overseers.

I also must clarify: when I use the term “white”, it’s not racial criticism. It’s accurate reporting. I’ve noticed these spiritually aggressive groups targeted white female leaders, but rarely African-American women. Perhaps out of fear of appearing racist—or because they projected unresolved issues with their own mothers and women like them. Either way, bias was clearly at play.

I Am Not Clueless….Nor Without Fault

I do not present myself as infallible. I, too, have made theological mistakes. I’ve been confused, I’ve wrestled. But I do not knowingly:

• Gossip OR Allow any person to gossip

• Try to read minds, to avoid Bible up front relating, meekly leader Bible contronting

• Publicly label people with demonic titles

• I’ve called God’s people Jezebels, false prophets, unsubmitted, NOR witches or warlocks or worse ..but many of these have.
• I’ve never pruriently “INNER READ” (peer into “psychic spy, new age voyeur” (travele) to “delve into” (far away READ) anybody’s personal,  private lives,mind or heart. But I feel sure that MANY THESE HAVE and DO …and do this OFTEN. (their devout trained hip people) And this is WHY I SPEAK.
• I’ve accuser jumped anybody in a public setting (!!) but I have had that happen and also seen others by this same dark grass roots mean ministry ‘impure fruit.” (for sitting there, walking int, standing there.but NO CAUSE, just triggered their mean demean devils(1996, 2003, 2010)
  (Hence it’s a cause to stand up, human up and ongoing Bible TEACH FOR THE SAKE OF  “A SAFE FUTURE CHURCH”)

PSYCHIC MIND GAME PLAYING THE NAME OF HEBREWS 10:25 “Fellowship. 

• Truly, I have target, prayed against or use my natural or feminine or spiritual powers to gain advantage  or to use or to control others in the name of ministry or in personal private full life.

Yet I must sound the alarm:
This behavior is not of Christ.
It is impure fruit—often occult-like in its obsession with control, image, and fear. And it has pushed many away from the true faith.

We Need THE AUTHENTIC MESSIAH CHRIST of Isaiah 11:2–3 Again

The real Jesus—the one revealed in Scripture, especially in Isaiah 11:2–3—was filled with the seven Spirits of God: wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, the fear of the Lord, and the Spirit of the Lord.

“He will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what He sees with His eyes or decide by what He hears with His ears.”

Jesus didn’t live by rumors.
He didn’t lead by suspicion.
He didn’t accuse by appearances or weaponize His position.

This is the Jesus I follow. The Jesus who refused to Pharisee anyone. The Jesus who never reviled, would have never created viral videos to humiliate, “to spy one, report the juicy gossip” and who would NEVER have allowed or tolerated any of his family, disciples or area pastor leader friends to wanted to give Him “the evil” report. Servant hearted Christ’s leadership was Spirit-led, not ego-driven.

Why People Are Leaving

In my view, this is one of the main reasons people are leaving churches and ministries by the thousands:

• They’re not rejecting Jesus.

• They’re rejecting counterfeit leadership that mirrors ambition, aggression, and accusation more than Christ.

We have witnessed and ministry assessed  by the fruits:
Church decline. Family dysfunction. The rise of controlling “apostolic” networks and turf wars. Gossip framed as prophecy. Harsh doctrines sold as truth. Accusation without accountability.

It is the culture of Demas,** not discipleship.
**  2 Timothy 4 Apostle Paul laments the surely mega gifted and talented, ambitious,  young minister,  Demas, for states that Demas  disregarded his own surely  high ministry call and also failed to discern Apostle Chief Paul’s.. Rather he resigned from Paul’s ministry and went to surf, participate in extreme sports and maybe sell time shares, to make his fortune on the balmy coast of Thessolonica. REASON?   “For he loved the things of this world more”

The EORR Alternative: A Cross-Body Unity

Through EORR Cross Body Unity, we offer a different approach.
No dues. No pressure. No hidden agendas.
We regard all believers as equal peers—whether you:

• Go to church

• Never attend church

• Lead a church

• Or have your own network of house gatherings

We believe everyone has value, has a unique perspective, and is made in God’s image. Every person has a backstory none of us can fully understand. So we lead with respect, grace, and relationship—not control.

In the End, We All Stand Alone

At the end of time, none of our ministry titles, fans, or church associations will be there when we stand before the throne of God. And it will be too late to repent or turn around.

Honest Facts: Be you a potentate or prophet a pauper or a peer…one things is for certain, that teach one of us will stand alone BEFORE “HIM.”
That’s the reality that guides my ministry.

The code words F.D.R. “FINAL DAY READY”

And that’s why I continue to live by the words of the book that first turned me on to Jesus during the Jesus Movement:

“How to Be a Christian Without Being Religious.”
That’s still my aim today.

BOTTOM LINE: Is it going to accusing LEGALISM or JESUS UPFRONT ,BIBLE RESPECTFUL ALL EQUALLY VALUING, HUMBLE “GENUINE ABIDING LOVE”

Big Sister,
Taveau D’Arcy
Founder, EORR Cross Body Unity

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