Indoctrination with fear of failure & judgement

Indoctrination with fear of failure and judgment. Members are indoctrinated with unScriptural fear of failure independent of the group in order to foster undue dependency on the group and its leaders.

Most if not all the people who have managed to escape ‘The Team’ and the Pesch family were tipped over the edge by financial enslavement & mistreatment as well as spiritual abuse and emotional blackmail, Consequently have floundered emotionally and financially once they managed to get free from the grip of the Pesch family.

The Pesch family usually portray those who have left the 'Team' in a very poor light. Those who do escape are completely demonised upon departure as the Pesch family rush to bolster their position before the rest of the group, and shift all blame and responsibility for apparent failure onto the departing individuals; at which point the most horrible secrets from private counselling would come out into the open, all stylized to paint a picture of the Pesch family in a loving and caring light as they “tried so hard to help these people, but they just didn’t have the spiritual capacity to go the distance in the Kingdom of God!” People who left were often described in the inner circle meetings as “Dogs returning to their vomit”.

In order to maintain their grip on remaining 'Team' members Klaus Pesch and his family employ powerful control techniques designed to influence the marital union of their followers, this would involve excerpting additional pressure on the wife of a husband who is already struggling with spiritual or emotional abuse. This could be in the form of affection or concern which is intended to draw her closer and feel cared for or loved by the family or the fellowship at large. This inevitably creates confusion or a schism in the marital relationship making it harder for many husbands to make a decision which would go against the wishes of the Pesch family or the direction of the group. Many men are subjected to outrageous levels of pressure to conform to Klaus Pesch's wishes, while his family would be working on the wife and children in the background, assuring her that Klaus knows what is best and that if her husband did what Klaus wanted, everything would work out and the Lord would be able to bless the couple abundantly.

Often the wife becomes overloaded with affection and concerned love to impress upon her that she really needs the groups care and guidance. This creates a tension in the marriage which fogs the issue in hand, and hinders the couple from taking decisive action. How can the wife pull the husband away from Klaus when his family is heaping on tons of assurance and love, how can the husband move to pull his family away from the fellowship when his wife sees the fellowship as a source of much needed support.

Bundle this together with the fear of financial failure and spiritual judgement upon leaving the group, and it becomes very hard for families young and old alike to break away from the 'Team', eventually they lose the ability to imagine life without the protection and apparent comfort of the Pesch family and their abusive teachings.