MARANATHA LEADERSHIP TRAINING SCHOOL As I had mentioned earlier the circumstances of my entering MCM meant that my finances were rapidly deteriorating. This deterioration was due to the loss of my frat job. This deterioration came to a head because of MLTS. MLTS was the Maranatha Leadership Training School. The mention of MLTS at a MCM locale was like mentioning the words “Christmas Morning” t
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I have been repeatedly and fiercely attacked times by very strong spirits from former board members of Maranatha Campus Ministries: ALAN AND GEORGIA TOMLIN The first time was during a period when I was convinced that there was widespread, unconfessed sexual immorality within Maranatha. I was sitting in my apartment when a demon from Alan Tomlin, then pastor of the Austin Maranatha,
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My Spiritual Journey by Steve Murrell May 20, 2006 Lately, I've been thinking about my spiritual journey - how I got from there to here - wherever there and here are. What were the main influences that shaped my spiritual life? For better and for worse, here they are - the ministries and churches, the good and bad, the stuff I hope I learned and the stuff I hope I left behind. S
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Well, this is my story about leaving EN. I certainly didn't suffer the extreme abuse some people here did. Mine is more a story of ignorance and rudeness. It's long, so feel free not to read. As crazy as this may sound, probably the biggest thing that drew me into Every Nation was the fact that I would be given a discipler. I thought that "discipler" was simply a Christian
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CINDERELLA'S STORY Three months after becoming a Christian, I began V.L.I. By the 2nd year of VLI, I was becoming more and more involved in ministry at my church: nursery work, hospitality committee, choir helper, babysitter, greeter, servant evangelism group...you name it; I did it. I was very involved in campus ministry at a local university, and it was during this time that I left m
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GAY IN THE LAND OF HOLY ROLLERS: I Was Told Hitler Can Be Forgiven, But Not My Brother Who Died Of AIDS. By Esera Tuaolo LAND OF THE HOLLY ROLLERS: Jacksonville is the land of Holy Rollers. I have never been anywhere else like that, where religion has taken over the entire city. It extended to the football team. The Jaguars were known as a Christian team. About half of the pla
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I, too, remember our desires to clean up the Congress from the abuses of the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, we let guys like Ed Buckham and Tom DeLay take charge. Their goal is and always has been to control the power and from that, the power. They tell themselves they're doing "God's work," but I know a lot about Ed Buckham's "religion," and he's no more inte
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MY DEPARTURE FROM MARANATHA INTRODUCTION: The first thing that happened after I started coming against the spirits the Austin elders were moving in is Alan started getting migraines. He had a problem with them before, but they were coming more frequently and in greater intensity. In one case, on his way to a regional staff meeting, it was so bad he had to turn around and go back.
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"I have just recently completed a book on the life of Derek Prince. You may know that he was embroiled in the famous discipleship/shepherding controversy that actually influenced the ministry of Maranatha. I’ve spent two years writing this book and I probably qualify as an expert on this subject." Let's set the tone with a quote from Derek Prince at a Maranatha conference: &q
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"There is a theme in history and literature that has always moved me. It is when a man stands with his friend even when it costs him dearly. I love it, for example, in Braveheart when Stephen—the crazy Irishman—turns to William Wallace after saving his life and says, “Sure, didn’t the Lord send me to watch your back.” I also love it in Tombstone when the character played by Charlton Hesto
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Well, how about a link to the FactNet forum, and some directions the most current and relevant information. A lot of space is taken up with general discussions about sheparding abuse and mind control. I'm looking for the latest information about Maranatha, Morningstar, and Champions.
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Can someone collect the most useful info on Maranatha/Morningstar/Champions from the FactNet forum and post it here? The FactNet posts appear to be more frequent and more recent, but I find the FactNet forum rather confusing. Also, Rick's site is monitored, so there's no opportunity for cult leaders to put a spin on the inexcusable.
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Champions for Christ was Greg Ball's baby from the beginning. I was in Maranatha Campus Ministries when Champions for Christ was founded. I saw the original brochure. It had Greg Ball's picture on it, not Rice Broocks'. Rice Broocks' role was always minor compared to Greg Ball's. And Greg Ball got most of the media attention, positive or negative. Meanwhile, Greg Ba
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GOD SQUAD - Joe Gibbs, the Washington Redskiks, Mark Brunell, Champions for Christ, etc Washington City Paper February 20th, 2004 By Dave McKenna On Feb. 5, Joe Gibbs was a featured guest at the National Prayer Breakfast MC'd by President Bush. Then, for this year's Daytona 500, Gibbs allowed his stock car to be used as a billboard for The Passion of the Christ, the new Mel
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HOW PHIL BONASSO STOLE LLOYD MANAMTAM'S CHURCH: Phil took Lloyd's campus leaders to lunch and told them of the vision to blend Sam's and Lloyd's City Gate Church, get this----without Lloyd's knowledge. Lloyd was told that the churches would have to merge and that he would be able to be trained more to be a leader in this church and it would take a year of training. The
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RICE BROOCKS, FAME, AND MONEY: "This is an experience that I witnessed a few months ago: I attended a reception for participants involved in a fundraising effort for the Nashville-based Youth Life Learning Center. At the end of the evening, I witnessed a conversation that deeply saddened me and confirmed to me that there is something extremely unhealthy in the core of MSI. The fundraising
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MORNING$TAR AND THE PHILIPPINE$ "We are from philippines VICTORY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP under MORNING STAR INTERNATIONAL, why are we require to pay for 400 pesos/HEAD for attending church convergence? and on the day of registration is 500 pesos/HEAD not including the 200 pesos fee for each child/HEAD. Do you know that salary fo a person here is minimum of 230 pesos per day in provincial rat
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KEY COMMENTS FROM THE FACTNET FORUM: This is how CP Wagner got involved in MSI (Morningstar). First Steve Mureell who used to be a maranatha have changed his ways, have also fired people that are legallistic in his church , this happened after maranatha disband. The whole church, repented of being legalistic. Because he is fruitful, his name is getting known, thats how CP Wagner got to know hi
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I'M DISCREDITED, YOU'RE DISCREDITED During a phone conversation with Rice Broocks, in what was obviously a well rehearsed spiel, he carried on at some length to the effect that he was established and that I couldn't be taken seriously. He brought up the episode when I wrote to people accusing them of sexual immorality. He said, "You pretty well discredited yourself in t
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DOUG GILES: HIS PEOPLE As I read another rant from Doug Giles, once again I am driven to find answers to the question: just where did this guy come from? As I noted on this blog back in May, Giles’s sister Paula is married to Mell Winger, a Charismatic who pastors at Ted Haggard’s New Life Church in Colorado (and who has some interesting links to Guatemala). According to the Wingers’ testi
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This is even more laughable than Rice Broocks' book excerpt. For those taken in by this, see "The Problem with Leaders Repenting" on this forum. Also see "Letter to Dr. Enroth," on this forum. Then see comments at the end of this interview. CHARISMA AND CHRISTIAN LIFE New Wineskins for the '90s: The story behind the restructuring of Maranatha. Interview
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CHRONOLOGY AND LEGAL STATUS OF MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES AND MORNING STAR INTERNATIONAL Part 1: Early Maranatha 1972—Maranatha starts on Murray State University (KY) campus 1975—Maranatha incorporated in KY on 2/28/75 as: Maranatha Christian Church, Inc. – based in KY with a KY address. This is the corporation that is filed under certificates of authority in multiple states (i
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MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES GATHERS FOR CONVENTION UNDER CLOUD OF CULT ALLEGATIONS Dallas Times Herald Lisa Ellis September 4, 1984 page 15 Several thousand young people who call themselves "God's Green Berets" are packing the Dallas Convention Center this week, hearing the gospel according to Maranatha Campus Ministries. But the gathering of Maranatha disciples
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DOMINION THEOLOGY AND RECONSTRUCTIONISTS Christianity Today "God's Law for a New Order: What Christian Reconstructionists really want" February 20, 1987 cover story In the early 1960’s, a small cadre of American Christians began calling for a second Reconstruction, one even more radical than the post-Civil War renovation of Southern society. Their white-bearded patriarch,
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REPORT ON MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES by Steve Cannon Personal Freedom Outreach (Before Maranatha Campus Ministries "disbanded.") Cults ministries are facing a new and troubling phenomenon: Some authentic Christian groups exhibit cultic tendencies. This is causing confusion among Christians. Many study the cults and then become alarmed when they see the very things that are exp
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USING SPORTS TO WIN THE WORLD Charisma Magazine November 2002 Say what you will about rich professional athletes. Rice Broocks and Greg Ball say preaching the gospel to sports celebrities is not an easy job. "We didn't start this ministry to reach disgruntled millionaires," jokes Broocks, who co-founded Champions for Christ in 1991 with Ball. "People think it's
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GOD IN THE NFL Charisma Magazine November 2002 Cover Story by Eric Tiansay "Are you ready for some football?" The tongue-in-cheek remark by worship leader Bill Hackworth wasn't off the wall, even though it was made from a church stage on a Sunday morning. His congregation, Southpoint Community Church (SCC) in Jacksonville, Florida, has several current and former Jackso
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MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES AND RECONSTRUCTIONISM - THEY'RE STILL AT IT Progressive at Cal Tuesday, June 08, 2004 BCR Senate Candidates Belong to Ministry with Christian Reconstructionist Ties According to recent comments posted by Hovannes Abramyan on CalStuff, former Berkeley College Republican candidates for the Student Senate, Amaury Gallais and Paul LaFata, are both members
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WAYMAKER IS MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES Darrell Lucus As some of you have probably seen, I was burned--badly--by an off-the-wall Christian group in my freshman year at Carolina. I'd been promising to write about it in greater detail. When I arrived in Chapel Hill in 1996, it was the fulfilment of a dream. I'd set my sights on going to Carolina from seventh grade onward--and now
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BREAKING AWAY FROM MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES Kathy Myatt January 18, 1981 . . . the peak of the pressure and disillusionment that had been mounting for months, if not years . . . or the lowest point in my life of faith and perseverance . . . depending on how you look at it. I got up calmly enough, my plan well determined in my mind, and went to have breakfast with one of my disciples. Havi
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