By Elizabeth Prata
SYNOPSIS: IBLP founder Bill Gothard recently had a heart attack and is in a coma, which brought up his organization’s (false) teachings; discussed in the news and on social media. After Lori Alexander The Transformed Wife publicly defended Bill Gothard, this essay examines Gothard’s enduring influence, exposing the legalism, distorted authority structures, and works-based theology underlying his teachings and in his followers’.