{"id":1208,"date":"2023-10-08T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T05:47:40","slug":"an-interview-with-michael-kruger-author-of-bully-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Michael Kruger, author of Bully Pulpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000; margin-bottom: 2px;\">An interview with Michael Kruger, author of <em>Bully Pulpit<\/em><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: auto;\">Guilt, Grace, Gratitude<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Kruger | Bully Pulpit\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ms9EOklGrog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Quote<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the hallmark indicators [of abusive leaders] is &#8230; a debris field of broken relationships&#8230; a trail of dead bodies that goes back years and years and years&#8230;destroyed lives&#8230;people who are estranged from this person&#8230; That is red flag #1.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Overview of video with timestamps<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=1m45s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">1:45<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0What prompted Kruger to write Bully Pulpit?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=4m56s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>4:56<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The niche for the book: From a church leader to church leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=6m14s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>6:14<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Confidence in doctrine and polity can cause us to lower our vigilance and believe it can&#8217;t happen to us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=7m37s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">7:37<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Celebrity pastors: it&#8217;s not about the size of the church but the disposition of the congregants toward the pastor and that which he has toward himself. Big fish in little pond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=9m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">9:23<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Primary red flag of a toxic or spiritual abusive leader: &#8220;Debris field of broken relationships,&#8221; destroyed lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=11m40s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>11:40<\/strong><\/span><\/a> \u00a0Current cultural frameworks through which some view spiritual abuse: if you raise concerns about spiritual abuse, aren&#8217;t you feeding our modern victim culture? Is it a manifestation of woke, progressive culture?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=14m0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>14:00<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Biblical examples of spiritual abuse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=17m34s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">17:34<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Yes, but what about&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=19m49s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>19:49<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0What are the unique effects of abuse from a spiritual leader compared to abuse from someone else?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=28m38s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>28:38<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0If someone comes to your church who has been abused in another church: here&#8217;s one thing to do and one thing not to do<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ms9EOklGrog&amp;t=32m15s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>32:15<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0How to spot abusers before they abuse. Vetting processes in seminaries and on pastor search committees. How to assess whether you&#8217;re in a healthy church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Michael Kruger,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[44,41,40,43,42,20,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-1208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resources","7":"tag-biblical-examples-of-spiritual-abuse","8":"tag-celebrity-pastors","9":"tag-effects-of-spiritual-abuse","10":"tag-implications-for-seminary-training","11":"tag-pastor-search-committees","12":"tag-spiritual-abuse","13":"tag-victim-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}