Survivors of spiritual abuse testify to having countless relationships destroyed by the behavior of the abusive pastor, who is sometimes enabled by a willing group of supporters and protectors. He accomplishes this destruction by using the retaliatory tactics discussed in chapter 5. These relational rifts are often so severe that most are never healed. The most obvious damage is that victims are often driven out of their own churches, thereby losing their core relational networks and the ministries they worked hard to build.
