Melbourne Christian Fellowship – Why I Left It. Part 2

This special three-part testimony is posted to share my experiences within a church organization whose teaching and practice I discovered to be more in line with that of a cult than an ordinary church group as one should expect to find such. It is not, “The writings of a deeply hurt man,” as is the accusation from people within, (a common …

Melbourne Christian Fellowship – Why I Left It. Part 1

This special three-part testimony is posted to share my experiences within a church organization whose teaching and practice I discovered to be more in line with that of a cult than an ordinary church group as one should expect to find such. It is not, “The writings of a deeply hurt man,” as is the accusation from people within, (a common …

I failed to study that word “free”

“In the church, there is no hierarchy.  Leaders are not to force their will on others.”  My wife and I visited a church one time and were very blessed to hear those exact words coming from the minister, as he preached his sermon.  The words impacted me because prior to him speaking, this had been our experience far

He was not the creator of his problem

I first met Darren when he was a baby.  He was the second child of dear family friends.  His father and I were professional musicians together for many years.  As a baby, Darren was a quiet, gentle, polite and loving little boy and I can still see his little round smiling face and his big …

We moved to where God was not

A few weeks after having left what had been our church home for five years, my wife and myself and two other non-compromising-Bible couples from the same church were asked by a minister from another denomination to join him in starting a church in our community.  This man was known to us all, as he and some …

Dramatic changes. Part 2

“Whatever is in the heart of a person will always get exposed.”  As mentioned in Dramatic Changes. Part 1, those were the words used frequently by the pastor of the church that my family and I were associated with at the time of my ministry in the local community.  Personally, I was glad to come into that knowledge, because …

Dramatic changes. Part 1

The first time my wife and I stepped inside our local church we were pleasantly surprised and greatly impressed by the people and the freedom that most of them seemed to genuinely express before, during and after the service.  Neither of us had been associated with a church since we were children, but the contrast between that time and this time was remarkable …

By way of gradualism

One of the ways the Holy Spirit of God has always burned His truths deep into my spirit is to draw my attention to written or verbal statements made by others, whereby I will dwell on or meditate on them for hours, searching out the meanings and ramifications contained within. Statements such as this: “If …

It’s in the lap of the gods

It was not until I undertook to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the people in my community did I learn of the high price one pays for their ignorance of it, or in fact, for one’s rejection of it.  Having discovered the reality of this biblical truth first in my own life, I …

The greatest loss of all

Just before He ascended into heaven, Jesus told his people that soon they were going to receive a power from God the Holy Spirit which would enable them to spread His message not only locally, but right around the world. He was not speaking about a power that could be developed by human strategies, He …

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