Friday, January 27, 2006

Healing Abusive Organisations

Healing abusive organisations

The following programme of action is proposed for healing an abusive organisation:


  • Teaching:

  • Integrate into courses, conferences & preaching themes of organisation.

  • Key subjects:

  • Spiritual abuse

  • Correct      discipline

  • Godly leadership

  • Fallenness of human nature – potential for evil in seemingly good men.

  • Staff change:

  • Discipline abusive hypocrites – preferably remove from leadership.

  • Bring in leaders from outside to stop inbreeding.

  • Send leaders on Sabbatical to spend time in other organisations or in business exchanging ideas and learning new things.

  • Structural change:

  • Accountability forums to members.

  • Accountability to trans-local leadership in relationship to local.

  • Constitutional reform.

  • Encourage openness and transparency.

  • Leadership reform:

  • Leaders get new mentors from healthy ministries

  • Take time off.

  • Read books and study how to lead in a fair and non-abusive manner.

  • Spiritual time to focus on God.

  • Public rebuke of leaders for sin.

  • Public repentance for wrong done.

  • Get rid of religious status symbols.

  • Relationship

  • Leaders form relationships with other leaders in healthy ministries

  • Organisations form relationships with other healthy organisations

  • Protection of good leaders

  • Prayer mobilisation for leaders

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