Listener Stories

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Stories From Our Listeners:

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Abundant Grace

First, thank you for calling us to biblical holiness. Anyone can live by traditions and standards. Loving my neighbor as myself requires God to radically change my heart. Thanks for equipping us with answers to those “who boast about outward appearance and not what is...

Journey out of Fundyland

This podcast has been so encouraging. I will definitely be sharing it with my friends and family. My journey out of IFB was very gradual. It was a 10 year process that started when I was a teenager. My family was shunned by our IFB church because they took me out of...

My IFB Story

Hey guys. I came across this podcast about a month ago, and I started listening to it on my drive to and from work. I have been helped so much by this podcast that I felt I had to share my story with you.   My IFB story is a long one, and it starts when I was a...

Still Growing and Forever Thankful

I'm gonna start with my testimony then speak on my journey through IFB the last few years. I grew up in a Christian home. My dad was led to Christ by a very prominent IFB preacher that travelled the country. I grew up going to one of the largest IFB churches in...

A Woman In an IFB World

My story is probably like most coming out of the IFB world. I was raised in a loving Christian home. My parents love Jesus, and we were at church most days of the week. I have felt the calling to ministry since I was a little girl. My childhood church prided itself in...

Shelter management in Christian homeless shelter.

My dad was IBF preacher.  Thankfully he never embraced this movement.  We did grow up in the environment and some of the thoughts and philosophy did impact me.  I didn’t realize how much until listening to your podcast.  One event does stand out in my memory.  I would...

Nathan Rager interview

Ugh. It was all I could do to get the the Nathan Rager interview. I personally thought you validated him and boosted his ego way too much. I was quite disappointed you gave him so much legitimacy by thinking he was funny. I personally thought he acted like a buffoon....

My Wake Up Story

My Wake Up Story I grew up as an evangelist’s son, and I remember clearly the day we moved into our 40ft bus as a family, and for seven years, that was our life. We traveled to many churches, and by the time I was seventeen, I had been to every state other than Alaska...

Thank you!!!

So my story is not too extreme, but here goes. I grew up in a pastor's home. My dad would've considered himself an IFB guy, and he held onto a few traditional things but was never extreme. Overall, he did things differently. So I grew up listening to Petra and Carman....

Thanks

I will probably come back another time to share some of my story. I recently found your podcast thanks to Eric at the Preacher Boys Podcast. I grew up in IFB, attended Hyles-Anderson and wound up in a few other places, too. My wife and I left about 10 years ago, but...