Mar 30, 2021 |
So I have been listening to your podcast from the beginning. My brother turned me on to it due to the fact that Mike Peters was going to be featured. Mike was my roommate and bus caption at Providence Baptist College. His wife and mine were also good friends in high...
Mar 25, 2021 |
I grew up deeply rooted in IFB churches. My dad was an IFB preacher and pastored a few churches during his ministry. When my dad attended Bible college at Tabernacle, my mom and I wore skirts. I was very young at this point. My dad and brother kept short haircuts and...
Mar 20, 2021 |
Our Unbelievable Story My wife and I met in the church that we would ultimately leave. Neither of us grew up in the church but moved there the same year while we were both adults. She was led to the church from mutual friends who provided her a place to live after...
Mar 19, 2021 |
I am new listening to your podcast. The one blessing of growing up in church is recorded below. I do not recall anyone mentioning this yet, but I could be mistaken. Or maybe this rich heritage was a unique feature of our church as the one true entity. I grew up in an...
Mar 16, 2021 |
Hello! My name is Trina and I grew up in the Holiness church. I left that church in 2013 when I divorced my abusive husband. I am doing MUCH better now. So let me share my story of triumph! 🙂 My parents were not raised in the Holiness church. They moved to...
Mar 15, 2021 |
I grew up in a fundamental Baptist church. Their philosophy was basically fix the outside first and the inside will follow. WRONG!! My parents didn’t allow us to wear pants, they checked our skirt length and how low our shirts were daily using the three finger...
Mar 4, 2021 |
I have recently left an IFB church due to some hurtful things the preachers wife said to me. I have been talking to a counselor concerning a choking experience I had in 2019 and since then have had issue with not wanting to eat. What she said made me realize she...
Mar 4, 2021 |
I am a new Christian (saved on August 8, 2015) and I was saved and answered the call to ministry in Independent Baptist Churches. Luckily for me, I have never seen the “extremes” of legalism, but have only heard stories. I did not grow up in Church, but the times that...
Mar 1, 2021 |
I was raised in an Independent Fundamental BIBLE Church in Southern Ohio (you know, because regular IFB would have still been associated with another group and not totally separate). I got invited to go by a friend I made when I was in Kindergarten, and this was the...
Feb 22, 2021 |
My wife and I took a group of teenagers to Bible camp each summer for years. We brought a group of wonderful kids with a mix of church and unchurched friends to this camp after they had closed and re-opened with different leadership. We were careful to ensure that...
