Countless resources shine light on dark details of malignant individuals and institutions. But Becky Garrison uniquely equips us with her master class in surgical satire. Gaslighting for God pokes holes in their persona puffery, unmasks their manipulations, and defangs their Medusa snakes of disinformation.

~Brad Sargent, abuse survivor blogger at futuristguy

This post tracks the history of my Pyramid of Abuse and Scales of Accountability graphic from 2014 to the present, shares the changes I made along the way, and gives the reasoning behind them.

The 2025 version features these new revisions: (1) A name change from “Loyal Opposition” to “Conflicted.” (2) Changes to the ordering of the Pawns layer. (3) Addition of a second accountability scale to show level of complicity of those in Pawn layer roles. (4) With the addition of this new scale, I’ve updated the graphic title to “… SCALES of Accountability.”

I’ve been blogging about spiritual abuse for nearly 20 years. From the feedback I’ve received, it’s clear that the most widely helpful resource I’ve produced has been my Pyramid of Abuse and Scale of Accountability graphic and the descriptions of roles people play in a toxic system.

If you aren’t familiar with this resource, read this article. It goes layer by layer, role by role, to lay out the framework of who does what in an abusive organization. Here’s the main graphic from that article, alongside the new version, so you can compare and contrast.

In 2007, I started a deep dive into my five major experiences of abuse by individuals and in institutions. These totaled 20 of the last 50 years, from the mid-1970s onward. This meta-analysis involved collecting what notes and blog posts I’d already written, then processing those experiences more in-depth, then looking at the corpus of those details to see what questions emerged and what patterns popped out.

Sometimes I’d find myself comparing those patterns with different toxic systems I’d been exposed to in previous decades of study — such as Stalinist control in the former USSR, the Cultural Revolution in Maoist China, and the Jonestown Massacre. Gradually, frameworks that made sense to me came together for understanding the general dynamics of high-demand systems of psychological and social control, and more distinctive elements in specific kinds of authoritarian systems. Diagrams and visual metaphors for those systems often emerged from my note-taking and margin-doodling.

It took over five years to produce the first version of the Pyramid visual. From that point in 2014 until now – September 2025 – much of that original graphic has remained the same. I made a few alterations to the Pyramid along the way: added elements, name changes, shuffled around the configuration of roles. It’s taken me most of this year to make some final refinements.

I thought some readers may find it intriguing to know the history of these changes, so I’ve put together this article. Let’s start with my earliest versions of this framework.

The Original Version (2014) and First Revision (2017)

The original “Pyramid of Responsibility” had four layers (as have all subsequent editions). By 2014, I had a fairly good understanding of how authoritarian systems worked, at least on how the top two layers established control. But Layers #3 and #4 needed some work still.

LAYER #3. Many of my experiences in malignant churches and ministries had involved legalism. Not surprisingly then, the original Layer #3 focused on the negatives: what people in the Pyramid were not allowed to say, do, or be. The bad actors on this layer were there to extinguish “anti-Pyramid” freedoms, and reinforce “pro-Pyramid” demands.

I liked this dual good cop/bad cop framework, but found it didn’t work to have just one visual represent each type of Pyramid worker for what everyone must/couldn’t say, do, and be. Also, it felt more consistent to find a term starting with “p” so it fit the alliterative pattern of Perpetrators and Perpetuators. Thus, I split Layer #3 into good-cop Reinforcers and bad-cop Extinguishers, with parallel visuals for each of the three dynamics of say, do, and be. And I renamed Layer #3 as Procurators, after proctors, who in test situations are there to tell you the right things to do and punish those who do the wrong things.

LAYER #4. I labeled this layer originally as “Enablers and Pawns.” But as time went on and my processing of experiences deepened, I concluded that every role in a Pyramid actually enables abuse. So it made more sense to label the whole row of roles on Layer #4 as Pawns, to keep up with the alliteration pattern, and to rename the “Pawns” visual as “Innocents” to show their lack of knowledge about the organization.

I also realized that needed to add a role to the layer of people who got played to keep the Pyramid going – the Loyal Opposition. I found this role referenced occasionally in discussions about sick organizational systems. Loyal Opposition people attempted to get institutional change … but typically found their work was in vain. Which meant they were another type of Pawn in the machine.

Meanwhile, I had an intuitive sense that the Pawns should be lined up according to their level of complicity with the Pyramid system. All enablers share some degree of responsibility for the harm done both inside and outside of their Pyramid. But it seemed to me that those with far less insider knowledge of what was going on should not be held to account at the same level as those who planned and implemented toxic tactics. So I reordered the Pawn roles from left to right to fit that implicit framework of lesser to greater complicity. (I would eventually make that knowledge/complicity framework explicit in my 2025 revisions.)

Still, my hunch was that Loyal Opposition did not quite fit so far to the left in the row of Pawns, but I didn’t yet understand why. I did at least have a sense that Loyal Opposition people had been a cog in the machine as much as they were caught in the Pyramid machine. Hence, the visual of a gold guy trapped in a cog. That visual came from spending time check out the many gold guy illustrations that involved cogs and machines. Such as the ones pictured here.

“Gold Guys” with Gears

The Next Revision (2024) and Current Version (2025)

Although I kept mulling over various elements in the Pyramid of Abuse/Responsibility after my revisions of 2017, I didn’t make any significant changes until 2024. That was when I spent a chunk of time recalling specific actions I had taken to resist the malignant leaders and toxic institutions during those five experiences of spiritual abuse. This sparked more reflection about the dynamics of being in a Loyal Opposition role.

• Did they always stay in the Pyramid? Did they always eventually leave?
• What kinds of opposition activism did they engage in while inside the Pyramid?
• If they left, why? What tended to catalyze that decision?
• If a Loyal Opposition person left the Pyramid, should they still retain that label, or was there something better to call them?
• What do former-insiders tend to call themselves once they’re outsiders who challenge the Pyramid machine?

I realized that Innocents may question whether to stay in a Pyramid organization, but they should be facing into, not out of, the Pyramid as they gradually learn more about it. I wasn’t sure which direction Loyal Opposition should face, or where I should place them in the row of Pawns … closer to exiting on the left side? Or at a hinge point on the far right? Did they always have more insider or system knowledge than Applauders and Avoiders?

These kinds of issues of labeling and placement are important, as lack of clarity in those can prove misleading. So I experimented, such as with this gold guy caught in a cog.

“Loyal Opposition” Gold Guy Caught in a Cog

Maybe the direction doesn’t make a significant difference. But at least it got me thinking …

The changes in 2024 and the first revision of 2025 started clarifying the level of complicity for Pawns. I made this more explicit by adding an arrow underneath the Pawn layer. The lack of shading for Innocents indicated very low complicity, while the shading on the arrow gradually intensified for Applauders through Loyal Opposition, based on the notion (not yet explicit) that roles more to the right had higher levels of knowledge about the system and presumably its harmfulness. I corrected that in the final revision of 2025.

But the label “Loyal Opposition” still bugged me. From my own reflections and in online discussions, the name seemed too limiting. I eventually renamed this role as “Conflicted” to emphasize them coming to a point of discernment and decision, rather than focusing on whatever activities they were taking to try to change the course of the institution.

It made sense to me that Conflicted people have enough knowledge of the system and its harmful impact to reach a crisis of conscience that requires considering a change in personal direction. So I circled the Conflicted gold guy in red, wrote its name in red, and then created a series of visuals to show four possible directions I could see as options.

Pyramid of Abuse 2025 Final Revisions

Here is the final version of The Pyramid of Abuse and Scales of Accountability, just adding a brown border to set it off visually …

The Pyramid of Abuse and Scales of Accountability 2025

… and this visual introduces the four directions a Conflicted person could take when they reach a crisis of conscience point. This is the subject of the next post in this series.

Four Potential Direction Choices for a “Conflicted” Person

What do you do when you realize the organization you’ve been involved with inflicts harm on you and others, via malignant individuals and toxic institutional systems? What routes in or out can you take?

1. Stay in the Pyramid? But work against the system and for its victims.
2. Stick with the Pyramid? But that means you have to pretend-forget-deny you are actually complicit as a toxic system enabler.
3. Leave the Pyramid? And openly do something, in words and/or deeds to public challenge the system and/or offer victim advocacy/support.
4. Leave the Pyramid? And either deconstruct, isolate, or maybe just invest time needed to rest, recuperate, and recover.

A final note: I will eventually mesh this information on Pyramid of Abuse refinements into the article that describes each role in the Pyramid and covers the overall dynamics. But my current priority needs to be finishing this series of posts that share details on the 2025 revised version of the Pyramid model, and the four different directions a Conflicted Pyramid person could take. Tentative topics in these follow-up posts:

• How a person at any level in the Pyramid might reach a crisis of conscience, and the options that forces the Conflicted to face.
• The processes of discerning and deciding on direction, going forward.
• Agents of Damage, Agents of Healing, and creating a Circle of Support for Survivors.
• A range of potential actions in pushing back against malignant individuals and toxic infrastructures in a Pyramid of Abuse.

© 2025 Brad Sargent

If you are not familiar with my writing, here are key materials I’ve produced so far [as of June 2025].

These provide the foundation for the entire Futuristguy’s Field Guides project, though this content relates mostly to the first two Field Guides.

ESSENTIALS

The field of “abuse” is massive … so much detail to absorb, so many patterns to perceive and concepts to describe, so many possible directions to pursue. I’ve delved mostly into authoritarian systems, how their leaders function, and social/cultural grooming that seeks to implement “totalist” psychological control.

To force myself to extract the core of crucial topics, I developed a series of tutorials, using a format of three PowerPoint slides per concept. The first slide summarizes the concept, the second and third slides expand key points of information and typically give a series of graphics that embody the emotional impact of the concept. This link goes to a page with my tutorials on systems, systemic abuse, societal oppression, and nine “Essentials” that expand upon them.

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PYRAMID OF ABUSE

My first major framework was the Pyramid of Abuse and Scales of Accountability. I developed the first version of this graphic in 2014 and have posted updates several times since. You’ll find a PDF of the 2021 Pyramid version at this link.

This particular article has probably been the most often referenced piece I’ve produced. It’s based on my having found myself in five major situations of spiritual abuse in churches, parachurch ministries, and Christian non-profits. These totaled about 20 years out of the last 50 since I became a born-again Christian. It’s gone through several updates, and I’ve edited it slightly for this PDF. More refinements are forthcoming.

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SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMICS

Systems thinking is crucial to understanding how institutions work. It gives us clues on how abusive processes and procedures find their way into organizational strategies and structures – and how harm can continue from an institution, even if malignant individuals who infused their abusiveness into it end up removed. You’ll find a PDF of basics on systems at this link.

Readers on Twitter have indicated interest in issues of institutional dynamics and what constitutes an “industrial complex.” So, I put together sections from three source articles and one case study for this article on Toxic Institutional Dynamics. Contents include:

• Describing Systems and Systemic Abuse
• Seven Elements in Social/Organizational Systems
• Devolving from an Open System to a Closed Industrial Complex
• Mutually-Benefiting Platforms and Pushback by Those Victimized
• Focusing in on Five Platform Element Clusters in an Industrial Complex
• An Example of My Process for Detecting the Pieces
• Sources for this Article [links to earlier posted versions]

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DEALING WITH SICK LEADERS AND SYSTEMS

My material on how pyramid systems work included a framework for what to do about individuals who demonstrate they are between unhealthy to outright malignant, yet who hold roles of influence in organizations. It also included parallel processes for addressing institutional systems that are unhealthy to extremely toxic. You’ll find the descriptions and charts toward the end of this compilation page, which has the entire original material I posted on pyramids. [See Step 5, Overview. Dealing with Toxic Leaders Who Need Healing and Sick Organizational Systems That Need Repairing.]

People in positions of power may prove to be UNqualified to lead at this time, due to immaturity and/or lack of skills. At least those unqualified may experience growth to a point of becoming qualified to lead. Others may even demonstrate themselves to be DISqualified from leadership, perhaps permanently, due to abuse of power, or other severe character issues of deficient morals and ethics. This Field Guides page details these distinctions and qualification criteria, and the following links give additional background.

Annotated Reader’s Guide to Futuristguy on Abuse Recovery, Advocacy, and Activism

Building Blocks in a Certification System for Healthy Leaders and Holistic Organizations – Part 2

What Makes a Ministry “Safe”?

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COMPASS OF SOCIAL CONTROL CULTURES

Over the years, I realized that there were significant differences among the various abuse of power situations I’d experienced. This led me to develop a framework that captured distinctives of social control systems. I started with three ways – chaos, charisma, and compliance – that authoritarian leaders used to groom people for totalistic psychological control. Eventually I added five other types that I have experienced and/or seen in organizational systems, and that have examples in history we can use as case studies. You’ll find the series of six posts with my most recent version of systems of social control on this compilation page.

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Bloom Where We are Planted

These are photos I took today – June 19, 2025 – of flower clusters on our family’s hoya plant.

If you’ve never seen hoya flowers up close, when still growing, they look like a spray of pink plastic stars on spindly streamers.

When mature, they look and feel like velvet, light pink with an orange-ish button and yellow dot in the middle. They often get a drop of liquid forming in the center of each star. The flowers smell like a pungent, sweet perfume at this stage, and the floral fragrance can literally overtake a room.

Within a few weeks, the stars and their streamers dry up and fall off, leaving behind the node on which they flourished. That node grows a tiny bit each time it hosts a flower cluster, and will serve as a host for more clusters as time goes by.

Look at the length of the nodes in the photo, and take a guess at how old our plant is …

How close to 60 did you guess?

This plant started as a shoot from a family friend’s hoya. They gave it to us in the mid-1960s. It’s been in the same clay pot ever since. As I recall, hoyas have to get root-bound before they will flower. Our hoya took some 20 years for that to happen! It was a big occasion when we finally spotted the first group of those distinctive pink flowers. And yet, here it is, another 40 years on, still sprouting flower clusters – though not as many and not as often as in its younger decades.

I’m sure there are multiple metaphors about aging in this humble little plant of ours. For me at this point in time, it’s an encouragement that new progress can be made in the same places, so I need to keep on keeping on!

The Futuristguy’s Field Guides Project

As I approach age 70, I am highly aware of my need to finish what I can, as soon as I can, in my Futuristguy’s Field Guides project. I decided on developing field guides as opposed to other kinds of books because I appreciate how their format combines short sections of text, with plenty of visuals for identifying the items or concepts mentioned. (As kids, we devoured a foot-high stack of nature field guides – geology, gems, trees, mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, amphibians, dinosaurs, etc.)

For years, I’ve posted articles on my Futuristguy website. As I divide the material into “digestible chunks,” polish these drafts, and add study guides, I transfer them to my Field Guides website. It takes a while to do these revisions and updates, because I’m aiming my Field Guides for a general audience of social impact start-ups, instead of exclusively for leaders in Christian organizations.

I’ve worked on this project for nearly 20 years, and already posted all of Field Guide #1 and finished a substantial percentage of the drafts for Field Guides #2 content. These two guides together focus on identifying and dealing with malignant individuals and toxic institutions. Field Guides #3 and #4 will address the more “positive,” constructive sides of building safe and sustainable organizational systems. So – “bad news” first, then “good news” for organizations reportedly designed to make a difference.

I chose this ordering after observing how vulnerable start-up enterprises often prove to be. I’ve seen well-intentioned church planters, non-profit leaders, and social entrepreneurs who are understandably caught up in wanting to make a purposeful impact. They sincerely wanted to make constructive social changes – but typically had little to no notion of how bad-faith actors could hijack or fatally infect their efforts. Naivety on the part of a few led to harmful results for many.

The Backstory: Shifting from General Blogging to Field Guides

I counted myself in that category of naïve ministry and non-profit workers. In the last 50 years of church/ministry involvement, I have ended up in five situations of significant spiritual abuse: two church plants, one long-established church, and two Christian non-profit ministries. These tainted 20 of those 50 years. Thankfully, I also had wonderful experiences in various kinds of religious organizations – sometimes in between the brutally abusive ones, sometimes at the same time as them. These offered perspective to see what healthy leaders and the systems they implement both preach and practice.

My earliest encounters with two severely toxic churches were in the mid-1970s through mid-1980s, including a four-way church split in 1978. This was a time when there were no Christian books on spiritual abuse and recovery. It would be almost 15 years before the first wave of such resources finally got published, in the early 1990s. This meant I was pretty much on my own to process questions about the trauma and theologies I’d received, with nothing more than the Bible, a few friends who were actually willing to talk about such heart-wrenching situations, and the Holy Spirit. Mostly, I needed to figure things out to regain and maintain sanity. Was I just crazy, or were we taught false doctrines and practices? If the latter, what could I do about it? What should I do about it?

From that combination of spiritual abuse experiences and the myriad of questions they raised, I have ended up with an expertise I never intended or wanted. But at least it came with a purpose: Like most survivors I know, regardless of the type of abuse suffered, I didn’t want what had happened to me to happen to anyone else. That’s what got me started writing, and motivates me to stick with it.

I started blogging in 2003 when I was almost 50. Kind of an out-of-generation thing for a Boomer to be starting blogs so far into mid-life. Back then, my blog focused on miscellaneous topics – personal, theological, and cultural. Even though I was working through my own incidents of abuse, I wasn’t writing about them so much yet.

Then, in 2007, I began posting more pointed articles about misuse of power in spiritually-based organizations, plus means of correction and prevention – basically whatever I was learning at the moment in processing my own experiences or in toxic ministry cases that were emerging across the entire spectrum of denominations and theologies. This led eventually to my putting topics into a more orderly flow in four Field Guides, fleshing things out with evocative “gold guy” graphics, media case studies, and reflection/discussion questions.

If you are not familiar with my writing, key materials I’ve produced so far are in this post. These blog posts and pages provide the foundation for the entire Field Guides project, though the content there relates mostly to the first two Field Guides.

The Next Set of “Blooms”

Let’s bring this full circle, back to the hoya …

And so, here I am, June 2025, ramping up a wrap-up of posts that finish out the main content portion of Field Guide #2. Forthcoming posts touch on several topics.

I’ve made a few refinements in my system identifying roles people play in the Pyramid of Abuse and their level of culpability for harming others. Changes mainly focus on the role I previously called “Loyal Opposition,” but now term “Conflicted,” because becoming an internal challenger to the system is just one road forward for those who see the Pyramid is inflicting harm. This new term lets me explore the processes and possibilities for those unsure if they should stay or leave, why, and what range of roles they can now play. Related questions include:

• What sparks openness to see the Pyramid is damaging people, and being willing to do something about it?
• What directions can Conflicted people in the Pyramid take?
• How do they discern and decide what direction to go?
• What factors can contribute to continued enablement of a toxic system?
• What roles fit within a Circle of Support for Survivors, as agents of healing outside the Pyramid who take on a redemptive opposite role from agents of damage inside the Pyramid?

Beyond the Pyramid are topics related to advocacy, system transformations, and how to assess for “success.”

• The sticky advocacy issue of “co-belligerents” – people who happen to be against the same thing you are, but you have little other common ground and are otherwise antagonists.
• What might paradigm systems have to do with malignant individuals and the toxic institutions they infect? How do paradigm shifts occur?
• A framework for thinking through cultures and their usual forms of interaction or isolation.
• What constitutes “success” in building a safe and sustainable organization? And what processes serve as parallels for individuals?

I will likely add a few other topics, perhaps repost updated articles that fill in gaps.

Greatly looking forward to completing this series that fill out Field Guide #2 source material! Meanwhile, my next post summarizes major Field Guide #2 content segments already in place: The Essentials, the Pyramid of Abuse and Scales of Accountability, Systems and Systemics, Dealing with Sick Leaders and Systems, and the Compass of Social Control Cultures.

brad/futuristguy

P.S. For those curious as to how I’ve kept afloat emotionally while immersing myself for years in such difficult and depressing details of spiritual abuse … the surfacey answer is a lot of Hallmark happily-ever-after movies. For more about that, check out my post on “the ABCs of recovery and resiliency.” [Arts, Beauty, Creativity.]

PRESENCE BASED WITNESS by David Fitch and Gino Curcuruto is available for Kindle. and in a print version.

The way my brain works is to look for systems of interconnected items, zoom in on details, and find helpful patterns. So I appreciate frameworks that take some large system or other and break it down into a process that shows the flow among the items, without disconnecting the elements from one another. That, thankfully, is what David Finch and Gino Curcuruto have done for us in their booklet, Presence Based Witness.

Finch and Curcuruto’s booklet may be a short read, but it is long on insights. They write accessibly, with potent personal stories that illustrate the six practical steps in this personal, presence-based process for connections and conversations. The approach they describe puts us in a role of humility. They show us what it looks like to be present in a place with other people, observe and listen carefully to what is going on, and then say what we see of how God is at work there. This tends to open opportunities with people who are curious, ready, and/or willing for us to share with them the good news and to watch for the Spirit’s activities among us.

Even though their way slows down our pace, it is not passivity: We must be actively engaged in whatever place we are rooted into, with whomever the Spirit is putting in our path. It also removes us from the often pushy and mechanistic tactics of so many conventional approaches to evangelism that get legitimately critiqued as relationally manipulative and culturally colonizing.

Presence Based Witness would be great to use in a group study or teamwork training. Every short chapter offers multiple issues to discuss, relevant Scripture to consider, and stories to get us started. I highly recommend this booklet!

Disclosure: I was on the launch team for Presence Based Witness and had early access to a draft version.

To prepare for next month’s release of Sunrise on the Reaping, I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of The Hunger Games trilogy plus The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Besides getting into the flow of the epic plotlines, I’ve been listening more specifically for clues about the resistance movements in Panem.

I especially hope Sunrise will share origin stories for all kinds of resisters who populate Suzanne Collins’ saga. We eventually see rebels who are stylists and game-makers, politicians and peacekeepers, merchants and workers, Capitol and District, citizen survivors and Hunger Games victors. How did they get to a point of moving beyond trauma to action? To me, this mystery feels like a missing piece we need to tie the series together. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on resistance movements in Panem …

As to origins of long-term efforts to implant resistance, in Mockingjay, Collins states in passing that President Coin was behind organizing the underground. We also learn during the rescue of Peeta that there are spies in the Capitol, and that covers get blown when there are such drastic actions.

But Collins drops some of her most intriguing clues about the underground with details about probable merchant rebels in District 12. Connecting the dots in The Hunger Games, we see that seeds of resistance were in place even before Haymitch’s Hunger Games 50.

Katniss’ friend, Madge Undersee, is the daughter of the mayor. After the reaping, it is Madge who gives Katniss the mockingjay pin as her district token to wear in the 74th Hunger Games. Madge tells Katniss this pin has been their family a long time. She also says that it belonged to her aunt, Maysilee Donner, who wore it as a tribute in the same Games that Haymitch won.

We learn from the video of Haymitch’s Games in Catching Fire that Maysilee and Haymitch were allies for a time in those Games. The mayor’s wife (only named as Mrs. Undersee) is the twin sister of Maysilee Donner—one of District 12’s three other tributes besides Haymitch sent to the second Quarter Quell. Maysilee’s parents owned the local sweets shop. Mrs. Undersee, Maysilee, and Katniss’ mother were all friends in their growing up years. Maysilee perishes in the Games As adults, Katniss’ mother eventually becomes an apothecary and healer for the community, and Mrs. Undersee suffers from debilitating headaches [perhaps due to PTSD?], for which she takes morphling. When Gale receives a whipping for illegal hunting, Mrs. Undersee gives Madge permission to give half a dozen vials of the drug to Katniss’ mother to administer to Gale. Healing and helping victims of Panem’s cruelty … both acts of rebellion.

How far back does Madge’s pin go? The mockingjay has long been a symbol of rebellion. The mockingjay species may have begun during the Dark Days of the Districts’ fight against the Capitol. And we’re told that when the Capitol’s jabberjay surveillance birds failed, they were released into the wild to die, but mated with mockingbirds and created a species the Capitol did not intend. So, this pin could even be more than 75 years old when Madge gives it to Katniss.

Katniss notes that the mockingjay pin is made of gold—worth enough to feed a family for a year. Quite a gift … and it certainly represents a large investment, even for a merchant family. Why did the Donners have this in pin the first place—regardless of whether they purchased it from someone else, or had it custom-made? I’m hoping we find out more about this iconic pin and the mockingjay symbol in the forthcoming Panem installment, Sunrise on the Reaping …

PRESENCE BASED WITNESS by David Fitch and Gino Curcuruto is available for pre-order on Kindle.

I’m on the launch team for this short book that offers practical frameworks for making sense of “evangelism.” I appreciate that the authors reject manipulative, hit-and-run methods for supposedly reaching others for Christ, and that they give us solid steps for a rooted-in presence, for whatever place we’re in.

This is a 5-star read for real-world witness–consider pre-ordering!

Part 4: Order of the Systems, Areas of Overlap

Part 3: Historical and Fictional Cases

of Attempted Totalist Social Control