Streetcar Forum

my final encounter with Tim Maurice was the following conversation. "You blindly follow a man who claims to be god. There is a medical term for that, schizophrenia. You brag about your intelligence but out of the two of us I'm not the one who listens to the deluded ramblings of someone with sch...

It was something that made my brain really hurt trying to keep up with. I'm going from my memory so please bear with me. The theology of the lampstand went through various changes. Initially CF as a whole was a singular lamp. then they became a branch with the buds on the branch all representative o...

Hi Guest, My experience is that if you were apart of CF and leave and go to another church you are still considered 'unclean, fallen, living a life of sin, wolf in sheeps clothing, demonic' (yes all of these accusations and others have been thrown my way). There are 2 problematic theologies they hol...

Its such the irony at the time when the Christian world is celebrating the birth of Jesus once again there is so much emphasis on old testament prophets. How many different names can we come up with Abrahamians Mosesians Elijahians Paulians ECT ECT What if they started looking at CHRIST as their exa...

hi Guest. This is a book I read when I first got out of CF. Its the Journey of the author coming from a conservative baptist church in the bible blet of America to a much more loving view of God, His word and His world. She explores the different Christian traditions and takes aspects from all of th...

Hi Stargazer, Welcome. The short answer to your question is that BCF and affiliated groups are a cult. You are right not to call BCF a church as there is nothing christian about the group or their teachings. The CF group has not tried to grow for a very long time and has relied heavily on children b...

Friends, I am writing this as I don’t know where else to really turn. The price of leaving CF is high. It is drilled into us before we even consider leaving. When we do leave excommunication is swift and sharp leaving us without our families, friends and communities. You are made and example of as t...

Spiritual abuse—which is the manipulation and exploitation of others by the misuse of spiritual privilege and power—is a well ­documented problem in the mind controlling cults and sects of Australia. Unfortunately, as many battered Christians have discovered, its negative effects may also be found i...

That's incredibly sad but also funny. Vic's shot himself in the foot with all those people not earning money. How can they pay the tithe if they aren't making any money

when I left CF I attended a cult recovery workshop through CIFS. There was a spectrum of cults represented. There was a moment where we went around the room and someone piped up and said that their group was the only true group of believers and they had been following the messiah. Another person jum...