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BraveHeart
December 21, 2008 05:50AM
Mark my word, Tony will come to the members of Radiant Life Church and announce that the name of the church will be changed.
When this happens get the heck out of that cult!
I re-posted this just to make sure it is documentedThere is a pattern that cults follow, once the heat is turned up, especially by the people who have escaped the clutches of the cult! As the people who have come out of a cult regain there prospective on life and they get to the place where they can share some of there experiences they are able to start exposing what the cultists are doing behind there secret closed doors and what they are teaching. Yes, the heat is being turned up even more as Turning Point Church was featured on the front page of the Everett Herald Newspaper!
Now I say this because I'm not prophetic. It's just simply a fact this is how cults operate.
They will eventually change the name of the church to distance themselves from the negative publicity. Radiant Life Church has a history of reinventing their image and attempting to do damage control. Look at the failed ministry's of "R worship" "Real Life." Radiant Life is the mother ship to Turning Point and what we have seen Radiant Life do Turning Point is following closely behind them.
I'm going a take a stab at this, I believe Tony will begin laying the groundwork to sell off the building they are in now and or walk away from it. Then move to a new location with a new image. Of course Tony and the elders will say it was there ‘god’ who has changed the direction and gave them a new vision. Or Tony will try to disconnect from the day to day duties of pasturing a cult and try to establish a free agent position. All this will be done to help improve their image and or to trick more people into following Tony's imaginary authority.
For those of you who are still sitting on the fence not really sure what to do....consider this. Radiant life church has lost nearly 70% of their church membership. All the church plants that the supposed "apostle of god, Mr. Tony Cunningham" has had his hands on, or church’s that has been under Tony's covering. They have renounce their connection and association with Mr. Tony Cunningham the false apostle. All but Life Change Church in Coos Bay Oregon and Turning Point Church in Marysville Washington. But look out now the fruit that this association with Tony has caused Turning Point!
It is on the front page of the local news paper!!!!
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TurningPointReject
I found these comments on the Herald web page from the TPC story that they ran. TPC is getting a lot of press these days and its not the sort of press they like to see. I copied these comments from the Herald page to the forum site because they talk about the "spiritual parenting" teaching at TPC.
I have not seen anyone here on this thread give any personal Testimony about their own experience with"spiritual parenting" at TPC. I have seen denials and qualifiers (i.e. They don't teach it; they stopped teaching it; they did teach it but not the same way as RLc, etc).
If you have had personal experience with the destructiveness of this or any other TPc teaching I encourage you to share your story.
TPR
Maybe...
Instead of reteaching the volunteers, how about re-teaching the Leaders of this church!
T S | Mar 8, 2009 3:42 pm | 0 replies | View all | Post reply | Request removal
I'm learning to Believe In God Again
Our family used to go to Turning Point. At first I was angry and confused. At the time I had spiritual parents. I was not allowed to get my parents permission; they were not allowed to make decisions for me. My spiritual parents were the only ones I could go to for guidance. After leaving Turning Point, I lost most of my friends. We go to church. I love God. It still scares me and makes me angry for what they did to our family. Those who say that Turning Point is not a cult don't know or understand what they teach and what they do. I'm trying to forgive and let it go and one day I will. God restores and turns things to good my mom says. Carol
T S | Mar 8, 2009 3:40 pm | 0 replies | View all | Post reply | Request removal
It's taken me years to Believe in God again
I am a teenager. Our family used to go to Turning Point. At first I was angry and confused. At the time I had spiritual parents. I was not allowed to get my parents permission; they were not allowed to make decisions for me. My spiritual parents were the only ones I could go to for guidance. After leaving Turning Point, I lost most of my friends. We go to church. I love God. It still scares me and makes me angry for what they did to our family. Those who say that Turning Point is not a cult don't know or understand what they teach and what they do. I'm trying to forgive and let it go and one day I will. God restores and turns things to good my mom says. Carol
T S | Mar 8, 2009 3:25 pm | 0 replies | View all | Post reply | Request removal
Turning Point
Been there, done that. We believe to have church/religion in school. However, when "teachings" are meant to push, push, push that's wrong. We used to be members of Turning Point. We also know how they work and what thei teachings are. As a reminder to all involved. Pastor Mike and his church were not the LEADERS of Summer Jubilee. They didn't have the money to put out anymore. They decided to go out and have other churches donate money, supplies, volunteers. It was known to be a Community Church event. No one church was in charge. The churches worked "together". The whole spiritual parenting thing.... Yes! My daughter had a friend 2 weeks ago telling her that her Spiritual parent/discipler told her she couldn't hang out with our daughter. If you don't attend there, you are not religious or spiritual enough. TS
T S | Mar 8, 2009 3:11 pm | 0 replies | View all | Post reply | Request removal
PEOPLE START ASKING QUESTIONS!!!
CALL THE CHURCH OFFICE AND GET SOME STRAIGHT ANSWERS....
Oh sorry they have been given a gag order by Mike not to talk on the phone. They will not issue any thing in writing... Because there afraid they will get caught in another lie and it will come back and bite them in the rear-end.
TALK TO PEOPLE AT THE TURNING POINT CHURCH, THEN, LETS COMPARE NOTES ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING.....
CHURCHES THAT ARE SECRET ARE HIDING SOMETHING, WHY CAN'T THEY JUST TELL YOU THE TRUTH? HOW ABOUT COMING CLEAN REPENT FROM ALL THE SELF APPOINTED APOSTLE STUFF AND RENOUNCE THE FALSE TEACHINGS THAT HAVE FLOWED INT YOUR CHURCH.
MIKE, YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO BE ACCOUNTABLE IF NOT TO GOD, THEN THE COMMUNITY, THEY WILL HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE!!!
OR YOU WILL END UP DOING MORE DAMAGE AND HURTING MORE PEOPLE.
BUT THEN, THAT IS RIGHT TONY TEACHES YOU THAT THERE ARE NECESSARY CASUALTIES IN ADVANCING YOUR KINGDOM.
BraveHeart