Jun 22, 2021 |
I was born into the IFB movement. The church I grew up in was in the Crown College/Temple Baptist wing of the movement. Preachers were our rockstars, and rules were our Christianity. I made multiple professions of faith starting at age 5 but always struggled with...
Jun 11, 2021 |
I wanted to thank you guys for the ministry you all have created here. This has been a great tool to open discussions with my wife. She was raised in an IFB church. Her family is still very much IFB, even after leaving a church that was continually bashing their...
Jun 2, 2021 |
Wow! I don’t know where to start! Today is June 2, 2021. I went to my hair stylist ( she is also a friend, we go to church together and get dad is the pastor). We began to talk like always about different subjects and some how I told her about dinner things I am...
May 26, 2021 |
I was raised in a holiness Pentecostal serpent handling church from the time I was a small girl and finally left when I was 34. While there are some differences between the IFB and the church I was raised in, the “standards” where pretty much the same. I began praying...
May 25, 2021 |
My journey started at the same place we ended up after we left, but God was clearly working despite the legalism. I was raised by a saved dad and an unsaved Catholic mom. We went to the Catholic church until my 6th grade school year, when my parents disagreed with a...
