Unhealthy "knitted relationships"

I'd like to highlight a few excerpts from the 3-page document about "knitted relationships". First, see how the literature explicitly warns that a nervous breakdown could occur as a result of these intense relationships.


Bill Turner (from the Staffordshire/Cheshire area) is known as a "prophet", and had an ongoing relationship with the church for a while. I have heard that he has since disassociated from the church, but have no confirmation of that.

It goes on to say that these relationships provoke "tremendous jealousy and opposition" - this is an understatement!


It seems even your thinking is controlled by these relationships, because your knitted partner is "in your face all the time spiritually".

This is the scariest part - and the part that ought to make you most angry, for it reeks of the worst kind of spiritual abuse: The threat that even the slightest sin, and even keeping secrets from your knitted partner can result in unbearable pain and loss of fellowship with God. Read this outrageous claim for yourself:

I can testify from the experience of my loved one that these knitted relationships are most definitely "in your face". My loved one was allowed no privacy, and was actually warned against spending too much time with her own family. And no wonder, if the price of privacy was "unbearable pain" and losing your fellowship with God.

Finally, there is the warning that the commitment required is a threat to other relationships, as many present and former members who have lost relationships with friends, family members and evens sons, daughters, mothers and fathers have found out.