Hiya, just wondered what happened to your website about the fellowship? I tried the link on the first page of this thread and it just keeps coming up with an error. Hope all are well. Onlyme
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Hi Trina, glad to be able to explain things from when I was there and offer a different perspective and understanding - like I said before though, it doesn't mean I agree with what's going on there. Has been a good while since I picked up a bible myself, but I seem to have the memory of an elephant!! Onlyme
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Hi all, just some answers to what you asked Trina - please don't take my answers as my agreement with what is/was being taught - just how I understood things. God's heart searcher is an angel from what I can remember. A messenger of god. From what I remember it was an angel that appeared to Elizabeth's husband Zacharias in the new testament to deliver judgement on him for not be
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Hi Che, thank you so much for your input here, I appreciate how hard it must have been for you to come here and post a message. I know there is more than what you see here that has happened to people. Please know that you are in my thoughts, and I'm sure others will agree that if there's any way we can support you please let us know.
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Who was that directed at please?
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Hey Broken, I have felt very much since coming out that I'm having to get to know myself and find out who I am. While I was there I felt very much as if I wasn't myself, which was my choice, and I think I suppressed a lot of feelings and ideas and all kinds really to try and fit in. I don't know where the pressure to do this came from, and whether it was a pressure I put on myself
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Hey peeps, how you all doing? Thanks Broken for that website, I had a look through and found it very interesting. I'm not sure I really understand what forgiveness is any more, I would hate for release to only come when someone 'forgives' you as this could mean a lot of peeps stuck through no choice of their own. I remember hearing about the holy rolling, holy laughter, an
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HELP help "help" I think is what you were trying to say! In simple terms (!)... I'm not sure the church has a place in modern times, as it isn't really holding out relevent and practical and real answers to people's problems from what I can see. There are some good principles to live by, some encouraging things that I know have helped me through difficult times, but f
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who's Randi?
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Hey peeps, have you noticed we're over 11,000 views? Who keeps clicking refresh?! I would say I'm not a christian any more. I believe in a god, a creative energy, and in the beauty of nature, but beyond that I can't bring myself to believe in god as a person, a character, a father or anything like that. If I still sound like a christian, I have a good memory for scriptures and t
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Hey everyone, Thanks for your input Tina, it's of great value, and refreshing to hear someone apologise for their part in what has happened, thank you - it takes humility and courage, particularly in such a public place as this. I personally feel some leaders were as much victims as those who didn't have such responsibility, if not more so. I'm so sorry for what you and your
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My family were all very involved in spiritualism in the past, and their experiences of this were very negative and led them out of it and into christianity. I know when I have talked to them there is fear of what happens when the door is opened to this type of thing, and I was taught very specifically from the bible that spiritualism is wrong, that knowing the future and contacting the dead is no
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Hey peeps, I just spent ages writing a reply, and then when I tried to send it I lost it. D'oh! Thanks David and Liverpool Writer. I'm doing ok. It's not been the easiest of weeks, but that's another story! Thanks for the link David, I found it quite interesting reading. One of the things I have struggled with in leaving KCF, is whether my own feelings of low self esteem
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I know I said I won't be back, but I just wanted to post some info relevant to what is being discussed (probably already known to you peeps like!) Info on registered charities can be found on www.charity-commission.co.uk They are charity number 509762 'Fellowship For Christian Services' Main scriptures on knitting include: 1 Samuel 18:1 Now when he had finished speak
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I know I said I won't be back, but I just wanted to post some info relevant to what is being discussed (probably already known to you peeps like!) Info on registered charities can be found on www.charity-commission.co.uk They are charity number 509762 'Fellowship For Christian Services' Main scriptures on knitting include: 1 Samuel 18:1 Now when he had finished speaking
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I know I said I won't be back, but I just wanted to post some info relevant to what is being discussed (probably already known to you peeps like!) Info on registered charities can be found on www.charity-commission.co.uk They are charity number 509762 'Fellowship For Christian Services' Main scriptures on knitting include: 1 Samuel 18:1 Now when he had finished speaking
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hi kath, i even had an experience on a much smaller scale in here. finding posts about the cult i used to be involved in i posted 1 message - didn't even get to share my experiences, and i was jumped on. I hope you're ok, and hope you find a place you can share what's happened and be truly honoured and respected for this.
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Hi there, I'm dyslexic and find it hard reading through the materials etc that have been posted as it takes me so long and I take so little in. But I am interested in how people have recovered. I myself spent most of my life in a cult and have only recently come out of it. I can't say I've recovered as such, as I am reminded daily of what was, I am getting on with life and this I&#
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sounds like you already had in your mind that things weren't right. that must have helped a lot in coming out of it all
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hi underdog, you said in the title for you post about filing complaints, how does this fit into your experience?
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Hi Pink1 I'm in the UK too - jolly old England
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Hi, I still have quite disturbed sleep but it hasn't been as long since I left the cult I was in. I have a variety of wierd dreams very regularly about interactions with the people there, and nightmares too, but they aren't so regular thankfully! I still live where most of the people from the cult live and see them around, and occasionally have some interaction, not usually through choi
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I think the point is being missed here totally. When I say a 'slag KCF off' website, I used quote marks to emphasise I'm paraphrasing the negativity that can come across with the type of website/posts/actions people take. I'm not playing into any abusers hands or trying to continue any cover up. I'm not sure how all that can be read into just such a simple statement.
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Hi David, I think you've missed the point of what I was trying to say... Here is the post from the other website - not written by me but someone I'm close to... "Hi to all; members of Kirkby Christian Fellowship, ex members, new members, old members, brothers and sisters. I’m an ex member of KCF. I left some time ago to pursue my own life, and what I knew to be right in G
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can i ask why you have taken that post off your website? it was quite a long post and constuctively talked about using our experiences to support each other and move forward rather than setting up a 'slag KCF off' website up
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i was in a cult and now ,although i still believe there is a god, beyond that i don't know. i won't go to any church as i don't trust any1 who is religious and i won't read a bible or anything as it can be interpreted in so many ways. i don't know if you're a rarity firefly but it's not my experience to still hold the same beliefs
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