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h2oOrlandoWarning
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« on: February 25, 2015, 01:36:06 pm »

It was encouraging to find others on this forum who have been burned by H20 Orlando: http://forum.gcmwarning.com/general-discussion/the-worst-of-the-worst-serious-error/msg9307/#msg9307. I too was a part of H2O Orlando around the same time as "bothered." And I also came to H20 Orlando in the early 2000s hoping to find a great experience, instead I encountered a lot of immaturity and dysfunction on the leadership team. No one in the H20 Orlando leadership was held accountable for what happened.

Many people, like myself, came to Orlando hoping to "plant a church," but there was already a church there and it was confusing. Were we planting a new church or just merging with this one? And yes, as bothered points out, there was a fairly big exodus of people leaving the church because of the issues or because they were dissatisfied with everything. In any other healthy business, the leaders would have either lost their jobs or at least been held accountable in some way. But, that didn't happen.

From what I can see they haven't changed their core theological DNA or leadership very much, if at all.

http://www.h2ochurch.org
http://collegiatechurchnetwork.com
http://www.gcmweb.org/
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2015, 04:39:47 pm »

Welcome, H20 Orlando. I'm sorry you were burned by this church, but glad you are finding encouragement here. God bless you.
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2015, 08:10:47 pm »

h2oOrlandoWarning,

Glad you found this site and posted here. I'm sorry that you gave so much and received so little. I hope you find it comforting to learn that the intrusive persuasion, condescending manipulation and expected endless "serving" we were subjected to (as testified to in so many posts here) in GCX is NOT AT ALL CHARACTERISTIC of HEALTHY CHURCHES.

I'm sure others will find your warning quite helpful, and confirm their own experience.

Janet
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