Thanks for sharing this Rob. It so matches my own experience, including the degree of restoration of some relationships years down the line and the caveat that mileage may vary between individuals and churches. My story can be found at . I get about one email a year in response to it, many with similar stories.
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I've posted on this forum a while back about NewFrontiers. Just dropping by here to mention I wrote an account of my experiences culminating in my departure from leading an NF church, which is online here. In fairness, there have been some positive changes for me personally recently, as you can read there. There is also an ongoing discussion on the potential for change within NewFrontiers
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Terry used to be fond of saying "New Frontiers is nothing" but that is somewhat disingenuous! I think it is not unusual for large organisations to have a number of trusts etc and possibly not that unusual for them to have a limited company. I'm not enough of a lawyer to know about it all. What I am sure of is that 99% of NF church members have no idea that there is such a wel
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Hello. I used to be a full-time pastor with a large church which was part of NF for seven years and involved for longer, from 1993 onwards. I left in 2004 in the wake of spiritual abuse which was easily the worst experience of my life. I maintain a website relating my experience and supplying a number of other links. The first part of the site deals with my story and could probably do with
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