The Clone's introduction

Welcome to De-Commissioned, a place for former members of the Great Commission movement (aka GCM, GCC, GCAC, GCI, the Blitz) to discuss problems they've experienced in the association's practices and theology.

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[The Clone]

I have been looking for a website of this nature for a long time. I will be looking forward in reading all the experiences that we all had, and I hope we can all someday meet in a ex-GCI or ex-GCM national gathering with a hopes in healing and helping others to get out of unhealthy patterns of life. I hope my name does not offend anyone, but I feel that I was so influeced by the main speaker M. Darling in the Twin Cites, that I must say the way it might be. It is a joke and mean to make some think about what really has happened to us all.

Secondly, I have been wanting to do some informal interviews with people with this whole GCI and GCM Experiment, as I call it, and this is a great way of meeting some new people. I have a legal background, and must say that this writing is very much protected, and we will no longer stand for men like the GCM leaders that have nothing but emotional damage to offer the fold.

It is like reading my own journal when I read all of these!!! It is so like the expereinces that me, other friends, and my family members had. I could go on and on. I have healed, but in some sense this blog and other website has been refreashing to read.

Peace Out.

-Mark Darling’s Clone

[Anonymous #99]

Dear Mark Darling’s clone,



I understand the name choice…it gets the point across and says so much about us former Mark Darling fans!



At one point during our long tenure at a GCM church I actually fervently prayed that I would have a “Mark Darling” family. Christ was no where in the prayer, I had actually subconsciously replaced (or equated) Christ with MD. How telling is that!



(By the way, I was not a new Christian and had been a member of several good churches prior.) But I was somehow sucked into some kind of aberrant thinking.



I thank God I’m gone from all that unhealthy thinking.



Good to hear from you Clone!