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Were shivering to the point where our teeth were chattering. and it was like the introduction where dave hasz would get up and it was the first time we had seen him during esoal and everything. and i remember he said, stop shivering. you sound disgusting. and its, like, dark and its just a scary environment. >> okay. youre going to have to eat some of this. >> were going to keep them moving. as soon as your team is done -- >> dont do it or youll have just as much more. dont spit them out. well m...

Does it prove true in life experience what im saying? dont go out there and say, dave hasz says this so i think thats true. >> basically, i felt like they didnt want us to have emotions. they just wanted us to be these happy people all the time, and they didnt really care what was going on inside of this. >> i think teen mania does this and a lot of christians do this but especially teen mania. they associate whatever is a normal human emotion or interaction or development as worldly so then you...

Just because its a thought doesnt mean im going to act upon it. >> and if you are real, you show a genuine concern, its immediately shot down with, oh, well, this is the answer to that instead of, well, lets approach this genuinely. just, like, oh, well -- >> so they had stock answers for everything? >> yeah. >> i was willing to believe anything they said because they were obviously more spiritual than i was. what do i know about gods voice? thats half the reason i went to the academy, to learn ...

Critically thinking what are really my needs, what are my desires, what does got want for me in this situation? >> the thing is dave hasz says you have to think critically. think critically. so it was very confusing and critical. >> it was like, be a critical thinker but follow us. >> dont question anything. >> right. >> were trying to train young people to think critically. some of the ways we do that, for example, anytime i teach, i tell the young people dont just listen to what i say and thin...

Thats pretty strong right there. >> david hasz gives this definition of honor as the total conglomeration. he said that the whole bible is summed up in honor. we have the honor council and honor code and the honor ring. its this whole -- you cant even question -- isnt it really about honor? what about, i dont know, love? >> so here we are in texas in the rain in camouflage panchos carrying a cross down the side of the road. when im the one cooking, im the one calculating the points. i can microw...

Those guys in the seats. so if youre an 18-year-old and you walk in and you go, god, use me to help get these 60,000 people here or whatever, wow. and then all of the ministry that happens. its really teen mania. its teenagers being used to -- whether its change the world, you know, on mission trips or change their generation here. in america. >> there is a shift and b shift. for the ministry placements. and a shift is, like, 9:00 many the morning till, you know, dinnertime. and then b shift is ...

>> communication. >> huge. >> i didnt talk to my sister. she thought i didnt want to talk to her. part of it was i didnt have the time. you had the 15-minute rule. and the only phone that you could use or i had access to was in the middle of the hallway in the dorm. so i couldnt openly speak to my parents and tell them how i was feeling or what was going on. >> you step out of your own reality. especially the western mind-set of reality and you really just experience the realities of the rest of...

Dave would tell the story as soon as the internals arrived, this elaborate story where he almost died in africa and this woman prophesied to him that he was going to miraculously recover and then his job was to sweep the aisles out of the lives of young people. that god was sent him to do this. so whatever he says is automatically credible. and the same thing with ron, theres this mystical thing around them that you automatically believe whatever they say. >> i never asked people to become chris...

Really bad. i guess i was able to take the abuse myself, but seeing other people having to take it, as well, i just couldnt deal with that. and that was kind of the epitome of all the emotional abuse coming to the surface as well. that just really opened my eyes to what was happening. >> i remember, we got to sleep on the pavement for like an hour, and they would wake you up and make you go jump in the lake or wake you up and make you get in a pool filled with ice-cold water. >> everyone was rea...