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Child_of_Arkham
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« on: March 12, 2017, 08:40:03 am »

Dear Larry,

Praise God you are out of the Great Commission and are providing resources to help people escape. I recently was part of Candlewood Church in Omaha, NE, which I left immediately upon finding gcmwarning.com. I was abused by a sociopathic father and stepmother growing up, which made me more succeptable to the cult. I gave my life to Christ when one of its members Xavier Rodriguez shared me the gospel.

I am forever grateful that I found Jesus, but shame I had to be introduced to God through a manipulated translation. I had no idea I had PTSD at the time from early childhood. I was chastised and disciplined for my anxiety issues. People genuinely did want to help me, but they were being misguided by the pastors, Rory WHITNEY and Gary Osborn. Both are extreme sociopaths and very intrusive and abusive. Rory, in particular, took me to the back corner of a hallway of a school where we had a Sunday service and chastised me because apparently I wasn't controlling myself very well, citing problems with faith, maturity, and my relationship with God. I was having anxiety breakdown so of course I could not control myself! I needed help and prayer, but instead I got chewed to the floor. I tried to defend myself by shouting back, which is all I knew how to do, being abused by my father, but Rory simply called me unteachable and impossible, mockingly smiling and walking away. Instead of praying for me, he left me in my misery. Apparently, he thought me a flight risk to publicity. That's the last thing a pastor should worry about!

I am obviously not the only victim of this debauchery. The thing that made me decide to leave was finding out about a former member being disowned by her own family on this very forum. I knew the girl and her parents personally. She grew up in the movement and did not know how to network on her own, which is what I fear to be a common fate for many children growing up in the Great Commission Mind*€%£. God was calling her into a relationship with a guy. She followed but her parents disowned her, leaving her with nothing but her boyfriend. She cannot network very well, and she is living by a thread. It's appalling how they treat dating as a sin and only allow courting if a guy gets approval from a pastor first. Talk about narcissism and dictatorship over people's lives.

Earlier this year, I posted my testimony on this blog and proposed that there should be a grassroots effort to take down the Great Commission, starting specifically with the churches in ones area. I believe what this cult does is a crime against humanity. Pretty much every success story I've heard at Candlewood involved someone who was taken advantage of while in dire straights or someone who happens to be an a**hole. (Excuse my language but as you can tell I am very angry for a good reason!) That is not a church, that is a den of wolves.

One big huge problem is how they are able to fool people, especially already devout Christians. Recently, Alex Bacon, the son of newly elected Nebraska congressman Don Bacon, has been a member for a few years. He and a few others were Christian before they came to Candlewood. They haven't even seen the bad side of Rory yet like many before apparently have. Despite several parents calling out the pastors for their hypocrisy around the turn of the millennium, they are still standing. The college ministry has become a valid, recognized organization on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The church and its members have gained positive television and news coverage. Basically, they've fooled a lot of people.

I have nothing against the good people that still attend the church. I pray they eventually escape and find a better church. I currently attend Lifegate, another local church but one that practices REAL Christianity! People need to know Jesus and deserve to know him as he really is, not whatever front a cult wants to put up to draw moths to a flame. Nobody deserves the mind games, control and mistreatment that churches like Candlewood dish out. Is there any way we can get these churches exposed and dismantled? I know God will eventually nip these wicked farmers in the bud, but what can one do become God's hands and feet in that manner without doing anything drastic or stupid?
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2017, 07:30:24 pm »

Hi Child of Arkham,
You don't have to be ashamed of finding the LORD in a GCx Church.  The important part is than God was there and you found Him, even if it was in an unhealthy place.

As far as exposing GCx, the unfortunate thing is that there are unhealthy, legalistic, shame-based cults everywhere that misinterpret the Gospel and Who Jesus was and what He did, as well as what it means to be a Christian.  Just a suggestion to you but you may want to get involved in a cult recovery/rescue ministry to help others come out of abusive, dangerous religious groups like GCx.  A group like that might help you in your own healing process.  
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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2017, 09:08:24 am »

Thanx for the advice. I am not ashamed of finding God in a broken place. At least I cling to the real God.

I am recovering more from all the indoctrination they gave me. I didn't even agree with some of it, to be honest. I had an abusive father who was just like pastor Rory Whitney. Very sociopathic. As soon as he saw my issues, he would target me, isolate me, guilt trip me and brainwash me. He wanted me to not pursue my own life and give my entire life to him.

It just really angers me that they are able to get away so much with looking good and even getting sponsors. I know they are no better than these ANTIFA groups popping up over trying to indoctrinate anyone who will listen. The Great Commission are bunch of insecure, sexist, controlling snakes. I will further heal, but I pray that God would intervene, stop their operations altogether, and give justice to the victims of their abuse. These people need to be put behind bars!
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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2017, 01:54:31 pm »

Thanx for the advice. I am not ashamed of finding God in a broken place. At least I cling to the real God.

I am recovering more from all the indoctrination they gave me. I didn't even agree with some of it, to be honest. I had an abusive father who was just like pastor Rory Whitney. Very sociopathic. As soon as he saw my issues, he would target me, isolate me, guilt trip me and brainwash me. He wanted me to not pursue my own life and give my entire life to him.

It just really angers me that they are able to get away so much with looking good and even getting sponsors. I know they are no better than these ANTIFA groups popping up over trying to indoctrinate anyone who will listen. The Great Commission are bunch of insecure, sexist, controlling snakes. I will further heal, but I pray that God would intervene, stop their operations altogether, and give justice to the victims of their abuse. These people need to be put behind bars!

Someone once told me GCx was "a great place for a lot of co-dependent people."  I think he was right.  There were a lot of people there who I think came from toxic, abusive environments and got involved in GCx and were willing to let others tell them what to do.  I don't mean to say that it was their fault for letting other people dominate them... but no one forced us to join that Church; get involved; and then stay as long as we did.  

This is no defense of GCx but I can't really think of anything they did that was illegal.  Dangerous and abusive, yes; without question.  But if you can find some reason to press charges against Rory Whitney or anyone else there, I say go for it.  Just don't end up in jail yourself over his ass.
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