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BREAKING THE CHAINS
Overcoming the Spiritual Abuse of a False Gospel

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Shari Howerton was born and raised in Southern California. Her worldview was formed inside a tightly knit religious community, by the one pastor she had known from birth. In 1993, she and hundreds of others sold their homes in California and followed their pastor to Tennessee. In 2003, Shari left the church and soon thereafter found hope in a new life with her husband, John, and church family at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In Breaking the Chains, Shari chronicles her life and the lives of others who were subject to control and abuse. She illustrates the profound challenges of leaving close friends and breaking free from a lifetime of harmful conditioning to find joy, hope and freedom in the cross of Jesus Christ.

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"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
~ Flannery O' Connor

BREAKING THE CHAINS is Shari Howerton's first book. Shari is a wife, mother and proud grandma. She volunteers at World Outreach Church and periodically writes restaurant reviews for The Murfreesboro Post. The following is an excerpt from her book's foreword:

"This is the story of one woman’s struggle with the cracks she began to see in her church as she grew up and the difficulty she had in breaking the chains of the doctrine of perfection—that she had to achieve perfection in this life before she would be eligible for eternal life. Her church was one of those, “we’re right and everybody else is wrong” denominations. They discouraged individual discernment of the Word of God and fraternizing with other Christians who didn’t belong to their exclusive denomination. Jesus said that He came to bring a sword and families would be divided over Him. There is a lot of hurt on these pages as Shari had to turn her back on family and friends and as they ostracized her for daring to question their beliefs. This story is her journey into truth and light and spiritual rebirth. It’s about being able to love deeply the very people who are persecuting you, to put aside the malice and turn the other cheek. It’s about forgiveness and the joy of coming to the realization that it is not perfection but the blood of Jesus Christ that seals our salvation."

~ Charlie Daniels