“I definitely think it was cult-like in many ways,” Jinger Duggar told Us.
. “Because I think I had wrestled with fear for so many years and I wasn’t sure why or what the source of that fear was. And once I was able to figure out, ‘OK, I think this teaching is making me fearful’ … I do feel like there was that ‘A-ha’ moment.”Jinger remembered being “gripped with fear” as a child. “[I’d be] thinking, ‘OK, am I pleasing to God? I don’t know what God expects of me.’ And so I would be so terrified to, like, even go play sports with my siblings.
”from the pressure she felt. “He had grown up in a different setting totally outside of my world,” she toldof the former soccer player. “[My] dad told us, ‘OK, before you guys can move forward in your relationship, listen to some of these teachings.’ So Jer was listening to, like, 60-plus hours of Bill Gothard’s teachings … [and] was kinda like, ‘Huh, this is interesting.'”.
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