hi mantony! yeah i have heard horror stories about the "base" in kansas. we were always assured ours would never be like that. HA! funny how history repeats its self. did you happen to hear about Frank Naea? the former president of ywam, well he may be still i dont know & dont care but he pretty much got busted for laundering money, went to court was charged and then la
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QuotekathQuoteadmmreFrom what I gather, their belief is that Christ was created, and not always. I think they have a good point, and I'm not even sure if it goes against the trinitarian belief. Hope someone sheds a bit of light on this one. Adam Yes it does contradict trinitarian belief, because Arians believe Christ was created by God the Father. That is, God the Father is superior
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i saw a post reply on this in another thread and thought i would ask a few questions. i read up on Arianism on a few different sights just to get a slight background in it. and now i have some questions, hopefully somebody would be interested in giving their opinion. why would Arianism be considered heretical in the christian faith? i see that some points are a bit on the fringe, but i wo
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here is some background on Kim. looks like he used to be a marketingdirector for P & G and started CC during the 80's in a battle against the new age movement and he was an anti-cult activist during that time also. link: http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_conc.htm[____and here____[___strange]
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i apologize, i jumped a little bit too quik here, i refered to Kim as a she when Kim is actually a he! ROFL! I should have read a bit closer. will do next time! peace, fula
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wow, her site seem skinda scary if you ask me. she is claiming to be "THE" prophet of God before the second coming. see here: and here she is actually saying that is who she is: she also claims to be the direct mouth of God: looks like someone is trying to play god. anyway, hope some of this helped! peace, fula
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in all honesty & all due respect, but when you have willfully sought out young people, to do lude sexual acts with you give up your rights to privacy. true you have rights to a lawyer and other human rights. but the mean that they are trying to make known that there are predators out there is the right thing to do. im not the kind of person that agrees with destoying peoples
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Quotefulajaywhat i read they seem to be alot like christian libitarianist (or the loosly used christian anarchist), though they are not, due to the fact that they are pacifist and they claim to not take part in politics, military service or war. pardon me, i seem to have made a grammatical error that could be taken in the wrong manner. christian libitarianist (christian libitarianism or loosl
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chaupil, i looked up some stuff. here is an outside link to some information. i have never before heard of them and know very little, but the link above does give some insight. it seems they use different terminology then usual. example, churches are not churches they are ecclesias (as in the early church of ecclesiastes) and that hell is not a place of torment but simply known
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sorry for a late reply. busy with the holidays. agreed! i think what you say RR is very true. the emotional and spiritual trauma that we & other friends of ours experienced took years to get over. i think there needs to be more done to stop the cycle of brainwashing. there needs to be more leadership from YWAM the organization to YWAM the bases. if it can be fixed who k
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thats the problem, they have no authority or say in each individual base. thats the problem. and lauren cunningham hasnt been the president of ywam for a very long time. he may be the founder but he has no say. each base is supposed to fall under a regional director & leadership counsel. yet some dont. becuase some overzealous immature person wats to start a ywam base to reach the w
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actually, the "base" we were working with used to be labeled here on your site and the base director, emailed you constantly trying to get ours removed from your list. at least that is what he said. we were located in Florida. some of the stories may seem far fetched but alot of it is true. and as i said before not all of ywam is bad, just the parts that have no leadership and/or
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hi and thank you! i was in ywam for nearly 3 1/2 years. though ywam as a whole isnt bad, alot of the individual "bases" that have little or no outside leadership or authority can be cult like. our experience was quite destructive and has taken a few years to recover from. fula
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I understand this. And this is why i am here. I have learned alot from this site and thought it would be great to join in, contributing to the forums. For my family and i were invovled in a destructive group for some time. Thought maybe i could help with advise for those who were invovled in the group. I apologize for any offense. Thank you for making me feel welcome. Peace, Fula
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Hi all! Just thought it would be appropriate to introduce myself. I am not new to RR but i am new to the forums here. For the better part of my life i have been involved in Mission work (non-evangelism) & Humanitarian work. Mostly in North & West Africa. And i have a pretty good knowledge base on world faiths & belief systems. If you would like to know more abo
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