I am so thankful I have discovered your site and books.
Your blog on the cleansing of the Temple was EPIC in my life!
Were you watching my life when you wrote the New Testament Prophet?
I can’t express to you how much you have helped free me.
The Church Refugee sanity video you posted last week gave us some sanity. Thank you so so much.
I have been working through your book on worship. It is truth that I have been coming into in my own understanding over the past few years. Your book brings it altogether in depths I had not yet seen.
I can’t express to you how much you have helped free me. Thank you
How I wish I would’ve come across a read like this/been exhorted as much when I was a few years more youthful…..my soul may have been spared a great deal of malarkey.
My wife has been freed. She now understands her emotional upheavals and helped her to see herself as ‘normal.’
I feel like I’ve been spinning my wheels for years and now like a babe relearning everything fresh n new.
The CRSG series helped me fit the pieces of my own experience in order and answered so many questions as to why so few people make the move to freedom in Christ.
How I wish I would’ve come across a read like this/been exhorted as much when I was a few years younger. My soul may have been spared a great deal of malarkey.
Your articles are an answer to prayer.
I feel so blessed to have found you. I feel like I’ve been spinning my wheels for years and now like a babe relearning everything fresh and new.
You are the most practical spiritual person I have known.
You are a breath of fresh air!
Your teaching on praise and worship has given articulation to what I have been thinking for ten years!
How New is the New Covenant’? I just finished reading it last night. It was so challenging, thought provoking and inspiring.
You are a breath of fresh air
I have to thank you for your blog and books. Your website has helped me greatly over the past 2 years. I feel like the past few years I am having to deprogram myself and relearn a lot
Your book, The Silent Killers of Faith, rescued my life seven years ago.
The New Testament Prophet – For the first time in my life, I don’t feel like I am crazy.
The New Testament Prophet – This material has transformed my marriage.
The New Testament Prophet – I feel like I have been put in touch with my Creator for the first time.
You have put on paper what I have always thought in my heart. Thank you.
The New Testament Prophet – I was moved to tears by the heartbeat of God for his people that resounds on page after page.
The New Testament Prophet – My paradigm of what the prophetic is has been turned upside down and reoriented.
Understanding the Prophetic Mind, Temperament, and Calling is a life changing seminar!
Wow, I have been set free!
I enjoy the way you put Truth into words! Your postings enrich life.
Your book on healing has touched me in such a deep way.
Your book on authority should be mandatory for every believer!
I wish your book on authority was in the hands of every believer!
Your book on legalism is such a liberating read!
Thank-you for putting into words what the Spirit has been whispering in my heart.
You say things I have always felt, but never had the courage to speak them out.
I can’t tell you how much your posts have blessed me and challenged me.
I think each church leader needs to read these books, I may buy one for our leaders
I wish I would have seen all of that when I was younger. It would have saved me years of heartache.
I cannot thank you enough for your ministry through these books they are so enlightening.
I read Silent Killers Of Faith and it has changed my pastoral life from legalism to New Covenant preaching.
I can’t seem to put your books down.
I gotta tell you that you are the most straight shooting guy I have ever met.
This little book about Matthew 18 is a great little treasure. I think that that 5 dollar book could save people a ton of hurt
Silent Killers of Faith — Oh my! What an eye opener to me and family!
Your book on praise and worship woke me up to the new covenant reality.
You have an amazing ability to put into words the very things people agonize over.
I can’t tell you how much your blog posts have meant to me.
Your materials are a healing balm in the Church.
I have never read such a well balanced treatment on the subject of the ”apostolic” and authority.
Your book on apostolic ministry has been a tremendous help.
Thank you for all the people you are helping and all the help you have been to us.
I’m blown away by your book.
Your book on praise and worship was one of the most influential books of my life.
Your book on the misuse of apostolic authority-what an eye opener!
I think your seminar on understanding the prophetic persona should be mandatory for every believer!
RUN – DON’T WALK, to the first opportunity you have to attend the Understanding the Prophetic Mind seminar.
For the first time in my life I don’t feel like there is something wrong with me. Your seminar on understanding the prophetic mind has changed my life.
Your prophetic seminar has helped me understand myself and others like I never have before.
Thanks to your prophetic mind seminar, I now understand why people respond to me the way they do.
Anyone who thinks he or she might be prophetic, or works or lives with someone who is, should attend this seminar.
As a result of being at your seminar on the prophetic mind, I feel like I have been put in touch with my creator for the first time.
Thanks to your prophetic seminar I am now free to be an authentic blessing to others, instead of always feeling like there is something wrong with me, because I can never seem to ”fit in.”
The residents in our recovery facility love your articles, so thank you – your writings become part of their discipleship and recovery
Have you been involved with cults,helping people who leave them, families who are separated due to being cut off etc? Are there legal issues to know ahead of any kind of confrontation? We have a lot of questions. The local cult which we were part of meets at least 90% of the bullet points in your blog “you might be in a cult if”
Hello Bruce,
For almost 40 years, the Lord has enabled and equipped me to help people from around the world extract themselves, and find healing from authoritarian, controlling, abusive religious systems and leaders.
I have experienced the abuse myself and understand it spiritually, theologically, relationally, and psychologically; I help people recover, or perhaps discover for the first time, the reality of their sonship and relationship to their Father, rather than relationship to the church or Christian religion.
I don’t do “counseling” as it is normally understood.
For me, it is not about “fixing problems.” I want to bring healing and restoration through life reconfiguration.
It is about deconstruction, and reconstruction of a life, according to Christ (not church, religion, doctrine, teaching, etc) . . . according to Christ in resurrection, in power; awakening to Christ . . . . coming out of decades of spiritual slumber and stupor, some of it done to us by others, some of it, our own doing: consciously or not.
-Christ in Scripture (the LIVING LOGOS . . . not dead doctrines of men based on the Bible.)
-Christ in heaven (Jesus in his person, experienced by the Spirit, not in theory)
-Christ in me (individually-the source of life and identity)
-Christ in one another (the functional community–not typical “church”–treasure in clay vessels)
All by the reality of the indwelling Spirit.
That’s my model of ministry.
If I can be of service to you, feel free to email at stephcros9@aol.com. While there are always thematic similarities in these situations, the situational differences make it hard to comment about legalities. Depending on the ages of the people involved, specifics of state laws, and the nature of the abuse, there can be legal issues. I was involved in one situation that went all the way to the state supreme court before it got settled (in “our” favor) against an abusive controlling leader, involving cult kidnapping, suicide attempt in a home group meeting (That’s a bad meeting when someone shoots themselves in the head!) professional deprogramming, etc. . . . stuff you would see on 48 Hours or some other true life TV show . . . unbelievable darkness, and I was thrown in the middle of it to try to reclaim lives for some. We did. There’s lots of darkness and abuse out there in what masquerades as “Christianity” and “local churches.”
God bless, glad the article helped shine some light.
You are not alone . . . your experience is, regrettably . . . too common.
I am sorry that i didn’t go back here to check a response! I am in the midst of a cult-like situation that I got out of 6yrs ago but still manages a hold on my daughter, son-in-law and two of our grandchildren. thanks for taking the time to answer. I am going to be involved with a conference call with you tonight. Scott Stilson has spearheaded the effort to talk with you, and i am looking forward to it. blessings in our Lord Jesus – the only Head and ruler and Father of His church. bruce
Dear Stephen,
I’ve read with interest some of your website postings. My wife and I were saved over forty years ago and have been involved in a number of institutional churches and house churches during that time. I thought you might also be interested in our website http://www.ChristCrucified.info which I hope encourages and strengthens your faith in Christ.
In Christ’s service,
Peter Newman
Hello Peter, thanks for making contact.
Hello Peter,
I came across your website and found it very intriguing. I’m still exploring your site; I’m assuming you’re not a 501c3. Since I’ve learned what that means and realized I’ve been listening to pastors apart of the church system for some time up until a video I watched by Mark Taylor. I’ve been trying to get clarity and guidance and re-establish my relationship with God.
Thank you in advance for your reply at your earliest convenience.
Blessings,
Brian S
I am not a 501 C 3. Search this webpage for an article explaining why.
On a slightly different topic… N.T Wright: Is he new covenant or a revisionist i some sense? Some of my friends suggested I read him.
I have no problem with NTW. I enjoy his stuff. I can understand how an entrenched Protestant Reformation enthusiast might not like him, but I think he has a lot of good things to say, particularly his perspective of Paul. Does that mean that I necessarily agree with everything he might say, probably not, but hey, that goes for any of us, and I am a pretty poor Protestant myself. 🙂
Dear Steve, thanks so much for being faithful over these years in circulating your studies and notes to me. I have only just got back to that place where feel I can be engaged again with Christian exploration. It’s been a long and hard four years since my wife died and i am not sure I will ever get over it. I married again recently a very fine Christian widow here in North Devon. I moved away from Exeter where I had lived for 36 years. I remember first meeting you and Rita in Plymouth UK. Congratulations on your long marriage. Cherish what the Lord has given to you both.
It has been very helpful to read some of your comments about Jesus in the Temple.
Last year I had a triple bypass surgery which has been very successful. Love Barry and Freda
Hello Barry, good to hear from you again. Congratulations on your marriage. I hope to get to the UK again in the future, Lord willing. I would like to bring my youngest adult daughter with me if I could make the trip.
Steven,
Several years ago i found your article “No More Sin Consciousness”. I’m blown away with how your doctrine is spot on in regard to a believer’s relationship to sin and law living. I copied your article and have posted it on my “Christianity Revealed” Facebook page. I did so before i asked you if i had your permission. I’d like to ask for that permission now.
Thanks for a tremendous article.
Joe, sorry for the slow reply. I have been out of town. Thank you for asking, permission granted, please just keep the original copyright byline and http://www.stevecrosby.org in anything you should use. Thank you for your encouragement.
Brilliant – we stopped “going to church” on 07:07:07 and have “skied off piste” ever since. Loving your videos. Bless ya.
Thank you and glad the resources are helping you.
Hi, Stephen! So far, I’ve been so blessed by the ministry that the Lord has given you. Is there a way that we can contact you via email?
Thank you and yes, stephcros9@aol.com.
Hello Eric here any chance you can have any zoom bible study groups I am with a house church much better then the institutional church I watch this woman named r b her Chanel is great does she run any zoom groups I seen your interview with her it was great a lot of truth about these institutional churches here’s my alternate email ericamonite613@gmail.com god bless
Hello, Every Monday morning I do brief video class available in the Crosby Cafe on Facebook. As well as on this web page and on youtube. Other resources are available stephencrosby.soarlms.com. These resources are used by house churches around the world. I recommend the Church Refugee Sanity Guide among others.