Recovering Grace: A Bill Gothard generation shines light on the teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) and the Advanced Training Institute (ATI)

Personal testimonies of finding true freedom through God's matchless grace.

Living and thriving through the grace of God.

A closer look at the teachings of Bill Gothard by the Elders of Calvary Bible Church in Fort Worth, TX

Articles about how Bill Gothard mishandles the Bible to support his legalistic viewpoint.

The truth about what happens behind the scenes in IBLP.

Our response to Bill Gothard's November 2011 letter addressed to "all past and present ATI students."

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Anniversary Milestones

Dear Recovering Grace Reader, This week marks the second anniversary of the launching of Recovering Grace. It hardly seems possible that a little over two yea...

July 25, 2013

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Personal Stories

Shrimp on a Sheet: A Talmud of Our Own

"And having food and raiment let us be therewith content." It's funny how each of our senses are tuned differently. While my husband is so sensitive to musical de...

December 2, 2013

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Perspectives

Manipulating Action by Altering Meaning

A few months ago, Recovering Grace posted an article entitled Reprobation or Christian Liberty? in which the author pointed out how Bill Gothard’s teachings on the “...

December 9, 2013

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Tales from Training Centers

Life Focus: The Price of a White Polo

I could share countless stories of spiritual, physical, and mental abuse from my time spent in the Life Focus program. But one experience that stands out in my mind...

November 21, 2013

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The Destructive Effects of ATI & IBLP

Life Focus: The Price of a White Polo

I could share countless stories of spiritual, physical, and mental abuse from my time spent in the Life Focus program. But one experience that stands out in my mind...

November 21, 2013

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Upon Further Review--Twisted Scriptures

"Rocky" Arguments and a Double Standard

Many people over the years have expressed concern with the way Bill Gothard misuses Scripture—not to mention basic logic—in his attempts to validate his do...

October 3, 2013

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What Now? Life After ATI

The Right Thing for The Wrong Reason

Recently, a Christian counselor whom I have been seeing said something that was a revelation to me: “You can read your Bible and be sinning.” As I let her words sin...

December 20, 2012

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When the Umbrella Breaks: Sexual Abuse in ATI

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A Call to Repentance

Dear Recovering Grace Reader, Many of you are aware that we have run a number of articles in which young ladies have chronicled an unusual form of emotional a...

June 6, 2013

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