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Here is another email sent to me that makes some good points:
"How could I have grown up at Windsor and not known there was abuse from the beginning, they ask? Well, anyone who sat under Jim Vineyard's preaching would be lying if they said they never heard crude, off colored and down right nasty stuff coming from the pulpit.
That being said, fear and mind control are what keep the members passive and in a constant state of defending/enabling a predator in the pulpit. Isolation, information control, and shaming all play a part in abuse being covered. God says he has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.
If your church and your pastor have burdened you down with fear, you are mind controlled.
There is freedom in truth.
Like any calculating predator will do, the good ole bad boy from the Panhandle of Texas found him a church that he could set up his IFB Extreme System.
What's that you say? It is ranting man made rules and regulations from the pulpit, twisting Scripture to enforce it and burdening members down to set the stage for the strictest most conservative church and pastor in town.
Once that is accomplished, who would dare believe that a pastor that strict is cheating on his wife, abusing people right and left and misusing the church's money.
If anyone is brave enough to try to make him accountable, surely the law enforcement, district attorney and politicians will come to his defense since after all, he methodically honored them, campaigned for them and did every thing to make them think he is NOT the imposter that he is.
It works for a while until the members decide to get out from under that demonic spirit and ask the Holy Spirit to guide them in all truth. That's when they realize the same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells also in them and they need not fear what man can do to them. At that point they know they must help put a stop to the abuse so there will be no more victims and those who have been victimized can begin to heal."
"How could I have grown up at Windsor and not known there was abuse from the beginning, they ask? Well, anyone who sat under Jim Vineyard's preaching would be lying if they said they never heard crude, off colored and down right nasty stuff coming from the pulpit.
That being said, fear and mind control are what keep the members passive and in a constant state of defending/enabling a predator in the pulpit. Isolation, information control, and shaming all play a part in abuse being covered. God says he has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.
If your church and your pastor have burdened you down with fear, you are mind controlled.
There is freedom in truth.
Like any calculating predator will do, the good ole bad boy from the Panhandle of Texas found him a church that he could set up his IFB Extreme System.
What's that you say? It is ranting man made rules and regulations from the pulpit, twisting Scripture to enforce it and burdening members down to set the stage for the strictest most conservative church and pastor in town.
Once that is accomplished, who would dare believe that a pastor that strict is cheating on his wife, abusing people right and left and misusing the church's money.
If anyone is brave enough to try to make him accountable, surely the law enforcement, district attorney and politicians will come to his defense since after all, he methodically honored them, campaigned for them and did every thing to make them think he is NOT the imposter that he is.
It works for a while until the members decide to get out from under that demonic spirit and ask the Holy Spirit to guide them in all truth. That's when they realize the same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells also in them and they need not fear what man can do to them. At that point they know they must help put a stop to the abuse so there will be no more victims and those who have been victimized can begin to heal."
