It jumped from 2005 to 2014!
Wow,some old names mentioned here. David Wilkerson is the one who surprised me the most. Although he only wrote the preface for an awful book...I won't be able to think of him the same way.
My life was heavily affected by Dobson and Bill Gothard. I read Dobson's books many many times from age twelve to my early twenties when I was invited to gcm. At twelve,I was surprised to find my childhood laid out in a book,but I was still a child....And I wanted what my parents chose to be the Right thing.
Even after eight years of gcm,I will still occasionally slip into threatening,shame-based behavior and my husband raises his eyebrows and says "Honey,that wasn't you,that was Dobson."