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Did you know that Flora was raised in a cult?
"The church I grew up in was
part of an American Evangelical Christian movement called The
Christian Fellowship Ministries, or Potter's House Christian
Fellowship. They emphasized obedience to your pastor, heavy
commitment to the church, spreading the word/converting people,"
gifts of the spirit" like speaking in tongues, and giving your
money to the church."
Read more here (the images might be
disturbing to
some)
"Obedience was the first and
foremost requirement in this church. They didn't even send their
young pastor candidates to bible school, but thaught them themselves,
pastor to pastor. This way the head of a new church was always
subject to his 'mother church'.
Obedience was ensured by requiring
heavy attendance from the church members: there were two services on
Sunday, one on Wednesday, and there was Saturday 'outreach' and
morning prayer meetings.
Shunning, cutting of contact to
members who left or somehow rebelled, was also one of the methods of
control. Questioning your pastor and things like academic education
(which would teach you to question things) were frowned upon.
What
I learned through the up-bringing inside this kind of church, was to
be obedient in an unhealthy way, and not to question matters of
faith.
Coming out of the cult mindset and the process of
rejecting the lies was a long journey, taking several years, a few
crisis and turning points. Rejecting the lies I was taught and
the lies I told my self, was crucial."
And the story of
that rejection is the subject of our next song and music
video.
Flora
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