Mark Where have you been the last 10 years? I have written many articles on the topic, some of which are quite good, yet I sense that you have the ability to say things concisely, and most importantly, in a way that points to Christ. I, and many others could really benefit from what you have to say. There will be a Christian website, Geftakysassembly.com, in a VERY short time, so please ta
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Hi Terry and everyone else Yes, the most important character trait in a Geftakys "leader," is compliance. Leaders are mostly inexperienced because they need to be easily controlled. Instead of real leaders, George, et al is looking for Lieutenants and seargents, not colonels and generals. There is only room for one at the top, and he is head over his house. On another note, loo
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Hi Mark and others: Interesting about your observation about things being more oppressive than ever in the SF Valley. Up in SLO, since so many left, they are trying real hard to be a kinder, gentler Assembly. Perhaps this will occur in SF Valley as well, especially if major sin in the "Chief Leader's" life becomes public. I remember the child discipline policies as well. Incr
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Mark I really like what you have to say in your posts. Please consider writing an article expressing some of your thoughts on grace and contrasting it with the Geftakys teaching. It is very helpful indeed. The current membership is addicted to this site and the RickRoss site. They are currently "washing the outside of the cup," and are making external changes regarding all of the
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Yikes!!! I re-read my last post and to my embarrasment and horror noticed that I indicated that a teenage son of a leader in San Luis Obispo killed himself. This is a MISTAKE! What I was trying to communicate was that when someone did committ suicide, as recently happened with the teeage son of a leader in Madison, WI, people always hear about it with an Assembly spin, or not at all. It jus
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Hi Joe I was around at the time of the suicide you mention, but up in SLO we never heard about it. Last year, one of the "leading brother's" from Madison, WI teenage son killed himself. No one heard anything much about that except, "pray that the family would remain strong in The Lord, and that The Enemy wouldn't use this." Great Assembly logic here; as if ev
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Hi Joe I couldn't agree more with your posts. If I was still in The Assembly I would probably have to say, "Amen! Praise The Lord! Selah..." Your conversation with George doesn't surprise me at all, many have said things like this, but since no one ever "told the church," is such a way that they couldn't ignore it, saints find it hard to believe. I thi
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HI Mark I could not agree more with your post. Many ex-members have trouble because they can't sort out what went wrong and why, and they have too much pride left over from their Assembly programming. You should know that I read your article, 2 years before I left, and it was a great help to me. We, my family and I, were able to skip alot of the shell-shock, because by the time we lef
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