Friday, April 22, 2011

POSTED ON THE COLORADO GAZZETTE

The IFB is the Crown Jewel of Cults! There is so much brutality and viciousness that ABC 20/20 barely scratched the surface of the problems with the IFB.

Sexual abuse is just one of the IFB's many problems, extreme manipulation, mind control, great deception of them constantly telling you they are the only ones that have the truth and the only ones that will be saved!

Like others said in their posts, all IFBs are connected through their 'colleges' and it is impossible to get into a position of any authority within the IFB unless you graduate from one of their schools. In fact the school you attend and whose ministry you are under will determine your choices and options as a potential Pastor, Associate or Deacon at any IFB cult church.

The deception is subtle because most IFB cults are set up with a 'man of God' that will not teach many damnable heresies from the Pulpit, so they leave it up to the 'Handlers' to do all of the serious indoctrination...these would be the Sunday School teachers, the assistant and associate pastors, deacons, christian academy teachers, bus captains, etc...done behind closed doors where few or no one can see.

The 'man of God' is a cover up and when you make an issue that someone is teaching heresy such as 'you have to be baptized in an IFB Cult to be saved' they will quickly throw you out of the church -like they did with me- and the very person that said it -in this case the president of the bible institute at my old church Lighthouse Baptist San Diego- the criminal who had been teaching heresy and lies will of course deny that he ever was....even after he gets caught on an audio tape recording...it was not his voice.

We were personally defrauded out of our home within the IFB and out of our life savings in excess of $250,000 dollars. We have spent the last 14 months seeking justice and IFB cult leaders have hired a Private Investigation firm to deceive us, lie to us harass and threaten us with extorsion.

We have received numerous death threats. The main IFB Cult lawyer David Gibbs of the Christian Law Association is a hardcore criminal in disguise. Anything you tell Gibbs or the CLA about your church or Pastor they can and will use against you -there is no Attorney Client privilege with them- same with counseling if you go to the 'man of God' and tell him anything they will later use whatever you told them as extorsion 'there is no sanctity or privilege with anything you tell them, even if its of a personal nature and you did it for counseling or because they told you you had to "obey the Man of God' as if he was a moses figure or some kind of God that rules over your life...wich they do as well.

I have been to their conferences such as Pastors School in Hammond Indiana several times, I have stayed in the IFB dorms, I have spoken to and interviewed many HAC graduates and former students, I have heard many many stories from IFB cult survivors...It's all true...My family was brutally victimized by this cult and people that deny that the IFB is anything other than a brutal, vicious cult have no clue what they are talking about or have been extremely lucky not to be burned -yet- like so many others of us have been brutally victimized.

I tip my hat to the pastor that came out and admitted that the IFB is a Cult though knowing the mafia like mentality of these criminals in the ministry nothing will be done unless it is further exposed.

One of the people that defrauded us is Jim Carroll of Lighthouse Baptist Church an IFB Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We have an open case for financial fraud against this church with the Colorado State Attorneys office...they are operating a fraudulent ponzi scheme and yes the arms of the law are very slow in investigating this.

I hope this is not all 'lip service' like so many other recent articles that have been written.

I have the most IFB Cult videos on youtube, my handle is 'reinavalera1865' and I also have a blog and a Facebook IFB Cult survivor page where we try to get legal, financial and counseling help for IFB Cult Survivors.

I applaud the efforts of other IFB Cult survivors who have worked to bring this issue to light.

The first step in change is education and awareness.

Though i was literally suicidal for a very long time and suffer from PTSD from all the brutal and vicious abuse I have been subjected to by the IFB Cult leadership, the Lord has healed many of my wounds and I love him very much and the light of life is slowly starting to come back in.

In Christ,

Allen Sanchez

3 comments:

  1. I am an ex-IFB member. I was fooled for nearly 30 years growing up there. I was run off for not adhering to their strict code and questioning some of it. Now my wife has left me to stay at the church and I am fighting to keep my three kids (10, 12, and 15) away from The IFB and protect them from her multiple types of abuses. I am living day to day financially from fighting for the truth to be heard. Is there any help out there. I feel like I am one little man fighting a well funded army.

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  2. I am an ex-IFB member. I was fooled for nearly 30 years growing up there. I was run off for not adhering to their strict code and questioning some of it. Now my wife has left me to stay at the church and I am fighting to keep my three kids (10, 12, and 15) away from The IFB and protect them from her multiple types of abuses. I am living day to day financially from fighting for the truth to be heard. Is there any help out there. I feel like I am one little man fighting a well funded army.

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  3. I don't know much about the material in these blog posts, but I am a missionary and used to be supported by Lighthouse Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I was taken on in about 2005. The pastor, Jim Carroll, was indeed made to step down because he was stealing some (maybe all) of the missions money. I was not aware of this until an interim pastor there wrote to me about it.

    The idea then was that the Church would resume sending me support. Sadly, when they got a new, permanent pastor, a guy called Stoltz, he decided to get rid of me, as so many incoming pastors do. The Adamic nature kicks in. I assume that they want to take on their buddies from whatever Bible college they went to. The way this guy did it was to make things so unpleasant that I would voluntarily ask to break off the relationship. That is not the first time I have experienced that. He sent me a bullying email and lied and said that I had not communicated with them, and that they had not had a prayer letter from me for about a year. None of that is true, but I do not play games with pastors (and they certainly aren't going to be allowed to bully me), so I politely thanked the Church for having supported me (I wonder if they ever saw that message) and ended the relationship. Prior to that, I listened to one of his messages in the Church (it was about Jesus being the true vine), and he had an unpleasant, bullying tone.

    Most pastors are mean as rattlesnakes to us missionaries. Apparently, they have not read John 13:34-35. Their mothers do not seem to have taught them good manners when they were little boys.

    Some of you may be aware that most men who preach in Spanish or French use a translation that is pretty much an N.I.V. in those languages. I recently wrote to pastor Donovan, of Bible Baptist Church, Pensacola, Florida about this, to tell him that there is now a perfect Spanish Bible (the Purified Valera 1602, available from valera1602.org) and that a perfect French translation is about to come out. His Church's book store sells Spanish N.I.V.s I got a very nasty reply, in which I was ridiculed because I am not fluent in Spanish. My Spanish is quite reasonable and I can spot an error easily, such as calling Jesus "el pontifice" (the pope!!) in Hebrews, and calling Jesus "el verbo" instead of the correct "la palabra" in John 1:1. One does not need a Ph.D. in Spanish to check out the verses that the devil's crowd always corrupts in bad translations. Anyway, this guy obviously does not give a hoot about people using bad translations in languages other than English.

    I DO believe that a Scriptural Church would have to be an independent Baptist Church, though, in spite of the existence of so many nasty Baptist pastors. (I do know some nice ones.) Look at the distinctives:

    (1) The Bible is the only rule of faith and practice.
    (2) Independence of Church and State.
    (3) Independence of each local Church.
    (4) Baptism by immersion in water, for believers only (that is, AFTER salvation).

    No-one can get away with saying that those are not Biblical matters.

    There is no other denomination that has those right and does not have false doctrine, such as baby sprinkling and charismatic junk. I am not saying that no-one in other types of church is saved. Salvation does not come from ANY church: it comes from believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour. (Acts 16:30-31)

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