May 5, 2020 |
Brian, I can’t believe your podcast. I was so blessed as a recovering IFB your story and the interview with your Dad blew me away. We are so similar as a matter of fact our Fathers were pastoring in the same areas. My father, Joe Bill Simmons...
May 5, 2020 |
My husband and I spent eight years in the IFB. Just a warning this is going to be long. We were members of an American Baptist church and saw things going on with the denomination that were quite concerning. Nobody at our church, including the pastor, seemed bothered...
May 4, 2020 |
My name is Stephanie. This is my “rescue story.” The IFB church is all I knew from birth until the age of 25. We were in church every Sunday morning, Wednesday night, and Sunday night and every Revival meeting in between. I was the poster...
Apr 27, 2020 |
My name is Brian Hilyard (no problem using my name) and I am a “Recovering Fundamentalist”. Hopefully that got at least a chuckle because I feel like this show is therapy for those of us that were raised this way. First let me say how much I love your show...
Apr 27, 2020 |
Thank you so much for this ministry. My story is a little different in that I wasn’t raised in IFB but did stay in an IFB church for about 8 years. I was saved in a Non-denominational church in Aug 2009 in Seymour, TN. My life has always had a lot of brokenness....
Apr 27, 2020 |
I gave my heart to Jesus at 19. I got saved out of drug addiction and had only been to church a handful of times prior to salvation. It just so happened an IFB church is where I went heard the gospel and got saved. Not long after salvation I surrendered to a call God...
Apr 24, 2020 |
Note: This story has been edited to remove identifying information at the request of the listener. I was raised in this church, moved off to Tennessee for college and came back after I graduated. Our church is part of a Baptist Association, which is an association of...