I was baptized into the local Church of Christ when I was 15. Not knowing that new Christians are supposed to start with John’s Gospel, I went right to Genesis 1:1 and started reading the Bible they gave me.
I started asking questions right away. At a cookout I asked, “Why are you eating pork? That’s not allowed!”
“It’s all nailed to the cross, my boy,” is what the leaders told me.
That never satisfied me.
At 18, I watched a late-night show by the Worldwide Church of God and started ordering their free literature. I started getting better answers. But after I joined, I noticed they’d go out to eat after Sabbath services making others work for them and that bothered me. I left when the Tkachs turned it into a mainstream church.
Since then I’ve been through a few more: back to the Church of Christ, a Pentecostal church, a mini-megachurch. Each time I ended up in the same place, unsatisfied with man-made doctrine.
So I started Set Apart Fellowship, a home fellowship with no pastor, no hierarchy, just people reading the text together and keeping what it says. That’s what my signature means. I ain’t your pastor and I don't want to be.
Your turn. How did you end up here?
I started asking questions right away. At a cookout I asked, “Why are you eating pork? That’s not allowed!”
“It’s all nailed to the cross, my boy,” is what the leaders told me.
That never satisfied me.
At 18, I watched a late-night show by the Worldwide Church of God and started ordering their free literature. I started getting better answers. But after I joined, I noticed they’d go out to eat after Sabbath services making others work for them and that bothered me. I left when the Tkachs turned it into a mainstream church.
Since then I’ve been through a few more: back to the Church of Christ, a Pentecostal church, a mini-megachurch. Each time I ended up in the same place, unsatisfied with man-made doctrine.
So I started Set Apart Fellowship, a home fellowship with no pastor, no hierarchy, just people reading the text together and keeping what it says. That’s what my signature means. I ain’t your pastor and I don't want to be.
Your turn. How did you end up here?
I ain't your pastor.