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Poignant AND salient. And eloquent. Thanks for posting it. I'm also confident that ultimately forgiveness is for the person doing the forgiving.

When looking back on twi, we now see how much of it was operating as a cult as well as how much we followed their practices and doctrines believing we were doing God's will. As for now, scriptures say the following holds true. God is not unrighteous to forget our work and labour of love which we showed in his name when we ministered to the believers and brought unbelievers to Christ. These treasures (rewards) are stored in heaven for us where they cannot be corrupted or stolen. What things we did lose or were kept from having because of twi's hardheartedness, greed, lust, idolatry, etc. (Gal 5 has the full list), God is willing to heal, restore and give to us when we put our trust in him. God has forgiven us for the sin in our lives during that time once we acknowledged them to him. I'm sure others could add to this list or contest to it. The point is there is comfort in knowing that not all of our time back in twi is a complete loss in God's eyes.

Yes. As Way Corps I always absorbed the cost. The cost of paying rent on a church that people can act however they want in multiple times a week. They can destroy my property, criticize me, treat my family members poorly, then complain to leadership and I get in trouble. I absorbed the cost of having to quit jobs and find new ones in short periods of time. Of moving across the country but they wouldn't even pay for a motel to spread a trip out after a flunkie says “God wants you rested”. I absorbed the cost of being Way Corps where a large percentage of your group you are in charge of is former dropped Corps or alumni who feel it wasn't fair so have to target you with all their killed dreams. I absorbed the cost of fools in high places making idiotic business decisions that affected me and never apologized but just continued to expect unquestioning obedience at every subsequent idiotic decision. I absorbed the cost of following megalomaniacs for decades. In fact if you had to sum up my experience in Twi it could be done with the words “absorbing cost”. Forgiveness? Like being in a relationship with a narcissist it is a one way street.