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When it was founded the movement met with a lot of critique from massmedia and other churches, due to its allegedly (but untrue) inhuman perspective against people suffering from physical disabilities and financial poverty, coupled with an authoritarian leadership. Since then the movement has consolidated and its views have emerged as somewhat more acceptable to mainstream society in general and among the Swedish free churches in particular. There has also been some critisism against donations given to Israeli's which have promoted settlements in disputed territories. The movement advocates Christian Zionism.

Aside from church, the movement also runs schools from kindergarten and up, but its teaching methods and parts of its curriculum has been under review by the Swedish National Agency for Education on several occasions. It also runs a Bible School and sends missionaries to Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. and IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy..

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According to its supporters, Livets Ord's primary goal is to help believers to put into practice what the Bible says. Faith, healing, prayer and answers to prayer together with a conviction that God is good are central themes in the preaching at Livets Ord. The power of attraction of the messages, they say, is that what is preached is appropriate to everyday life. From the beginning, the distinctive features of the church's worship services have been: its freer format, strong adherence to what the BibleThe Bible (From Greek βιβλια biblia meaning "books", which in turn is derived from βυβλος byblos meaning "papyrus", from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported papyrus) says, much praise and worship, and plenty of space for preaching.

According to its critics it is considered a cultThis article discusses only religious or sociological cultist groups, and small or new religious groups considered harmful or strange by the public, media or anti-cult activists. This article does not discuss "cult" in its original sense of "religious pra, though much of the cultishness has been tuned down since the founder Ulf Ekman stepped down and instead worked on expanding internationally. In one study forty-three former students of Livets Ord Bible School were interviewed and nearly 50 percent of them had experienced psychosisPsychosis is a psychiatric classification for a mental state in which the perception of reality is distorted. Persons experiencing a psychotic episode may experience hallucinations (often auditory or visual hallucinations), hold paranoid or delusional bel-like symptoms, and 25 percent had attempted suicideSuicide (from Latin sui caedere to kill oneself) is the act of ending one's own life. It is considered a sin in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as an honorable way to exit certain shameful. Also common was anxietyAnxiety is a complex combination of the feeling of fear, apprehension and worry often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, chest pain and/or shortness of breath. It may exist as a primary disorder or may be associated with other medica, feelings of guiltGuilt is a concept used in various ways in various contexts. In psychology and ordinary language, guilt is simply a negative affective state in which one experiences regret at having done something one believes one "should not" have done. Guilt and its ca, and emotional disorders, but claims are disputed.