….My reflections on a high-demand cultic church….
Our pastor concluded his Sunday sermon on the first part of Ephesians 6 about children with this: “Above all, teach your children what it means to live as a justified sinner.” That sentence just reached out and grabbed me. If he had said, “Teach them that they are wretched sinners,” I would have said, “Yeah, […]
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I was talking with someone who visited the Assembly once in 1992 with her husband and children. Once, mind you. And that was a long time ago. “We never came back,” she said, “because I just couldn’t make the commitment to raise my children that way. It was too hard.” After that, she felt for years like […]
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Just finished reading The Happy Room by Catherine Palmer, a fictionalized account of growing up as a missionary kid in Africa. Very interesting parallels with the Assembly. Children of missionaries are now termed “third culture kids”. I think many Assembly kids fit that category. Some AKs were allowed a certain level of cultural participation. They […]
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After five years of post-Assembly recovery, it seems that quite a few former Assembly members have regained some sense of stability in their lives and the beginnings of restored faith. But the parents among them may still be watching their children struggle with life. Many of us who left long ago – maybe even most […]
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