Service as Part of Coercive Control: Have You Experienced This?

I wanted to start a thread for those who are willing to share experience where they were asked to work for free and told this was what God wants, or this is expected. In some traditions/cults they call is seva, in others it is called volunteer hours but I have seen it become exploitive and abusive, personally, and am hearing more and more stories on various cult podcast channels. Does anyone want to share their experience(s) to help others see what is really happening? And how it can turn into control?