Acts2Network/Gracepoint: False badge of honor in Spiritual Accountability Software
Imagine this, you are a male and want be a part of A2N/GP, your leader “strongly suggesting” you get Spiritual Accountability Software like Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You, along with practices like retrofitting productivity apps to serve the same purpose as Spiritual Accountability Software (SAS for short). If you don’t have these restrictions or “boundaries” in place, they will harass you passive aggressively then just aggressively till you comply or leave.
The point is to enforce boundaries against pornography and in order to do this they give positive reinforcement for those with SAS. Consequently, brothers get praised while not addressing the pornography addiction and basically doing nothing spiritual.
For example, The ideal man with proper SAS:
Disables his web browser. As a result you gets to say this loudly in from of leaders and sisters that he has boundaries. Meanwhile, he becomes a nuisance as I have to google how to use some Tech equipment at HB. Then he has to order boba through my phone after.
Has a combination of, if not all, the SAS like Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You. So now all leaders and sisters get to see these logo on their devices and know that you have boundaries. Meanwhile, I used to have the Covenant Eye of Sauron always looking at me with in phone and has seen all my daily data for 6 years. I hope for no data breach.
Have someone else’s Apple ID be in charge of your IPhone Screen-time Passcode. So when working late at night, your iPhone Screen Time out and you have to find the brother you put in charge to unlock it, which is right in front of your leaders and sisters, showing you have boundaries. Meanwhile, I can’t get $1000 of my new phone now because I can’t factory reset my old iPhone to trade since it requires a Passcode of an Apple ID I don’t have access to, and can’t change or reset. And that bother is probably on a church plant and forgot he was in charge.
The false badge of honor comes from the appearance of sacrifice, loyalty, and piety towards Christ that leaders and sisters love to see.
However, the brothers I knew and I, would have all the SAS, but we would still indulge in pornography. We all found work arounds. Despite this, to the church and even non-Christians, we looked so pure, but most of these boundaries just made us less useful and lazy towards the lust in our hearts.
Again, I was one of these guys, and I cringe every time I think of it.
To the A2N/GP Defender: “What’s the alternative? Just do nothing?” - No, but maybe only do this as a crutch for the guys who really need help and not as a vaccination in order to enter society. Nor should we gaslight or actively persuade people that they are the guys who really need the help. Also stop glorifying these (SAS) sacrifices.
I might post on the “12-Step Program” they have on pornography addiction and how A2N/GP deals with pornography addiction at a later time. For now, SAS is a false badge of honor.
I was a part of A2F Berkeley from 2016-2020, A2CN 2020-2021, and Joyland 2022
Former Die-Hard Gracepoint Defender
Already doxxed and discredited