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The GOTHARD Files: Failure to Reconcile 1981–ATI, part ...
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The GOTHARD Files: Failure to Reconcile, 1981–ATI
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Bill Gothard Resigns from IBLP Presidency
March 6, 2014 // 151 Comments -
Today Is Our Day of Prayer
March 6, 2014 // 41 Comments -
Recovering Grace's Response to IBLP Board Action
March 5, 2014 // 70 Comments
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Charlotte's Story
February 5, 2014 // 544 Comments -
Sacred Grooming, Part Six: A Secretary's Account of Lif ...
January 31, 2014 // 400 Comments -
How the Teachings of Emotional Purity and Courtship Dam ...
July 22, 2011 // 372 Comments -
A Call to Repentance
June 6, 2013 // 347 Comments -
Bill Gothard Placed on Administrative Leave
February 27, 2014 // 315 Comments
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Roxanne, thank you for sharing your heart. As a m ...
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ATI and IBLP have blessed our family greatly and c ...
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@Roxanne, praying for you and all your family this ...
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Oooh, good catch Donna. Yes, I believe there is a ...
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Right on. I would have felt sorry for any woman e ...
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Matthew, Your prayer requests are right on. M ...
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Behind the manipulations,the scheeming,and bullyin ...
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Amazing to come across this site. I didn’t know t ...
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Lulu, You don't know me but we have mutual frie ...
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I was wondering the same thing.
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Ryan, that church in Hammond has a long history of ...
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Thank you for your clarification about the root of ...
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-words-that-used-to-m ...
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Thank you for that correction Chris. Gibbs did not ...
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Let's talk about "bitterness" and the "bitter root ...
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Alfred - Could you have prevented what's happened ...
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2013 Year in Review
Dear Recovering Grace Reader, We hope and pray that you have had a blessed holiday season. As we move into 2014, we’d like to take this opportunity to share with you how God is continuing to use our website to help others, as well as to look back at our top 10 posts of 2013. […]
The Blessings of God
Bill Gothard’s courtship literature promises rewards to those who do courtship right and consequences for those who date — rewards and consequences that are not promised in Scripture. I’ll take examples from Gothard’s recent courtship teaching, then share my own experience with courtship and dating. In the article “What Is Courtship?” Gothard lists the Foundational […]
Issues of Concern—Bill Gothard and the Bible (1984)
A Report by Ronald B. Allen, Th.D. Professor of Hebrew Scripture Western Baptist Seminary, Portland, Oregon May 30, 1984 The week that I spent at Basic Youth Conflicts in 1973 (Portland) was one of the most difficult of my life. In this seminar I was regularly assaulted by a misuse of the Bible, particularly of […]
Fellow Fundamentalists Denounced Gothard’s “Chain of Command” (1974)
In the November 1974 issue of “The Projector,” a newsletter for Christian Fundamentalists, editor Dr. Dayton Hobbs challenged Bill Gothard’s “Chain of Command.” You can read the entire issue here: http://www.theprojector.org/projectors/nov1974.pdf As with most issues of “The Projector,” much attention is given to separation from non-fundamentalist influences. (Dr. Hobbs did not foresee how severely Gothard […]
Somebody SHOULD Have Despised My Youth!
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12) I remember frequently hearing this verse during my years with Bill Gothard’s Advanced Training Institute (ATI). It was often quoted to the young people at various […]
Grace in Gothard’s Economy: Sanctification with Compounding Interest
Grace. Historically, most theologians and Christian teachers view it simply as favor bestowed upon man by God. A supernatural intervention that, though we don’t understand its workings, changes the outcome of our lives. For example, most Christians would view grace something like this: My repentance + God’s grace = Salvation My sorrow + God’s grace […]
No Place for Shame!
Talking about my family’s involvement in ATI & IBLP is something that is so incredibly difficult for me, mostly because my family refuses to talk about and would like to pretend that it never happened. It wasn’t until I was 25 years old and found myself having panic attacks, intense feelings of shame, and anxiety, that I […]
Life Inside
My family joined ATI when I was five in 1984. We were members of the pilot family program (the first 100 families). I don’t know what ATI is now, I only know it as it was for me: A very strict Christian home school program. I hear they have changed some things, but that doesn’t […]
We Were Elite, Super Special Christians
“You are the best of the best.” “You are on the front lines of the Christian battle.” “You are like the Marines of the Christian faith.” What Christian young person would not want to hear those words? Every single one of us wants to be special. We all want to belong to something bigger than […]