I had an unfortunate experience with a life coach this past autumn. I had read a book that I liked by author Pam Grout. In the book I became familiar with a story by a life coach named Catherine Behan. that I found rather inspiring. I contacted Catherine after seeing an offer on her website where she would assist me in doing a scientific experiment based on the law of attraction for a fee of fi
Forum: Abusive and Controlling Relationships

I would also like to say SDA1 that if you are not part of the leadership then I am sorry that I directed my post towards you. You say that you do not think the ministry seems healthy. What do you think is unhealthy about it?
Forum: Destructive Churches

Some knowledge... the way you write, you seem to be a leader of the Autumn Leaves sect. SDA1, you cannot wash your hands of what your sect has done. Why do you think these members do things like this? Because you have an exclusive group that you keep exclusive. Why do you think that Doug was kicked out of the adventist church? He was accepting tithe and he was arguing for ideas that are very
Forum: Destructive Churches

I would like to draw attention to the Seventh Day Adventist church please for discussion. A previous thread existed that discussed whether SDAism was a cult. The moderator here determined it started as a cult, but grew out of it. I would like to suggest that this is perhaps generally true, but that the mainstream church is split into two halves; "liberal" and "conservative"
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Hi everyone, I would like some thoughts on a sect of Adventism, Autumn Leaves. It is based in Canterbury, New Zealand. If you look at the website, you will see that it doesn't say that it is adventist. That is no surprise. The conservative adventist church likes to trick people into coming to prophecy meetings. For instance, take what the entire South Pacific devision (the South Islan
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