So what is the Gospel?

I’ve decided to take another break after this post, before I post anything new.  I’ll try to check comments randomly and respond to them when I can, but I need a break to focus on other very important aspects of my life.
As much as I have found freedom in Christ and a new love for [...]

More Traits of a Spiritually Abusive Church

Here’s another good site that lays out what a spiritually abusive church looks like.  Pretty similar to the previous post I put up.
An excerpt of just the symptoms:
Spiritually abusive situations can be recognized quite readily. People involved in an abusive situation begin by feeling that generally things just don’t seem right. As [...]

So Did Pastor Ed Kang Lie to His Members?

[Updated 8/20/09, 9:50am]
Nyoron has clarified in the comments that Pastor Ed didn’t specifically say that the bloggers “refused” to contact him.  However, the question still stands:
Why did he say he tried to contact us “bloggers” when he did not?
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I could not get this thought out of my mind recently.  According to a current Gracepoint member, [...]

Added a New Table of Contents Page

Hamcycle thought it would be a good idea to try to structure the contents like a book if possible.  I agreed, considering that if you’re new to this blog, it can be overwhelming about where to start.
So I created a new Table of Contents page.
It’s still a work in progress.  It does not include every post [...]

Characteristics of Abusive Churches, and Related Survey Questions

I highly recommend that you read the following site to help determine how an unhealthy, abusive, or even cultic church can be identified:
http://www.barnabasministry.com/recovery-characteristics.html
I also recommend that you try to answer the following questions I copied over from churchabuse.com:

A Letter from an Ex-UBF member’s parent to UBF leaders

I found the following from the exUBF site I posted earlier.  It’s a letter from an exUBF parent to UBF leaders.
You might be shocked at how it seems so relevant to Gracepoint Fellowship Church.  You could almost imagine a GFC member’s parent writing the same thing.
Read the Letter

In Pastor Ed Kang’s Own Words

I have found it sufficiently confounding that Pastor Ed and Kelly Kang refuse the acknowledge the sins they’ve committed, considering that both he and Kelly are guilty of similar infractions and sins that Ed laid out against Becky in splitting from Berkland Baptist Church.
Therefore, I thought it would be appropriate to use Pastor Ed’s own [...]

Updated the Post on Ed and Kelly’s Presence on the Web

I thought you guys would find this really amusing, almost borderline comical that someone would create a profile for Kelly Kang like this.
I find these measures to be too extreme.
Instead of doing all these other things to not repent, how about repenting?
Again, I vow to take down my site once I hear news about genuine [...]

Kelly Kang’s Blog as a Snapshot into Gracepoint Culture

As you all well know, Kelly has a blog.
http://kellykangblog.wordpress.com
I thought of something interesting as I was perusing it awhile ago.  Read her blog posts.  Then read all the comments.
They all boil down to one of the following:

Kelly Kang and the Biblical Role of Women

Hamcycle took his blog down, but with his permission, I am posting the following from his blog, as it details how Kelly Kang at Gracepoint Fellowship Church has behaved in her top leader role next to Pastor Ed Kang.
I’m including the comments as it generated into an interesting discussion about the biblical role of women [...]