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They didn’t even use the King James version of the Bible. They didn’t talk about authority in the same way I’d heard it taught, they didn’t say how important it was that children obeyed their parents far into adulthood, and they didn’t preach that women should wear dresses at all times. Instead, they talked about Jesus, love and grace.
the clearer the issue became for me: IBLP had put a lot more energy into teaching me to fear the world beyond its doors than it had put into teaching me to trust God and discern for myself how to reach a good and wise decision on any given issue.
Getting out cost us, but it was worth it. It was worth it to find freedom from the guilt and the fear. It was worth it to learn how to think for myself about what I really believed about everything from God and the Bible to how many kids we should have and how they should be educated. It was worth it to discover that standing up for myself or others isn’t a sin or an act of disobedience. It’s a mark of freedom, of self-respect, of dignity. In learning to treat myself more kindly, I am discovering that it’s possible to do the same for others as well.
