This is a gateway page to every post in my “Testimony 3.0” series, with a rough idea of what is covered and when it takes place. “The ministry” is the ministry which established a church in California and one in St. Louis, which I started attending in 1997, led from 2000-2005, and effectively resigned in 2005. “The teacher” is the man who founded the ministry. I do not name them because I do not want to draw unnecessary attention to them; those who find this place likely know of whom I am writing. This testimony is being written out to help me systematize and remember the information, to help people who are emerging from this group, to alert people who are still entrenched in that ministry to what really happened to me and my family and my study group, and to serve as a warning to anybody who finds themselves drawn to false teaching like this.
- Testimony 3.0 – Introduction
- Pounding on Wittenburg’s Door – Early life in the LCMS, 1972-c. 1983
- Double-dippers and Tongue-talkers – From Southern Baptist to Charismatic, c. 1983-c. 1987
- Postmodern Before Postmodernism Was Cool – High school, c. 1987-1989
- An author, a prophet, a dropout – College and slacker life, 1989-1997
- Wait for it – Interlude about how hard it is to write about the ministry we ended up leaving
- The first year – My start in Bible teaching, and an overview of the unusual doctrines of our group, 1997-1998
- Insufficient for me – Ordination and ongoing work with the teacher, and the real rejection of sola scriptura in Hebraic Roots, 1998-2000
- Stickler – The lack of systematic theology in our doctrine, 1998-2003
- Taking sides – How we dealt with attacks from inside and out, 1998-2000
- The enigma of the early church – Dealing with Hebraic Roots’ claim that the Gentile church is corrupted by paganism and antisemitism, 1998-2003
- Grafted – Romans 11 and where the Gentile church fits into Israel, and another look at “replacement theology,” 2000-2003
- 4.5.1 billion years, and the Moops – the teacher’s rejection of the literal six days, and how string theory “proves” the importance of ancestry and bloodline in God’s plan, 1999-2000
- He is not here, He is risen – the trip to Israel in May 2000
- The long summer goodbye – the teacher moves to California, and the ministry here gets a new name, Summer-Fall 2000
- Gradual enlightenment – brief introduction to the changes in my theology after the teacher moved, 2000-2001
- Edom and the tribe of Dan – Middle East events and how they fit into bloodline-related prophecy in our group’s eschatology, 2001-2003
- When Jesus ceased to be God – The fight between Christian Zionists and Messianic Jews, and my eventual rejection of the deity of Christ, 2001-2002
- In hoc signo vinces – Constantine is revealed as the antichrist, and the teacher has contradictory revelations from God, 2002
- The Liar’s Chair from a distance – A family is kicked out of the church for saying what most of us were thinking anyway, 2002-2003
- My heritage is beautiful to me – The 2003 Passover conference, and the beginning of the schism in earnest, Spring 2003
- Asking the right questions – Torah 101 and the role of the Law, 2001-2002
- Twice as much a son of hell – The Jewish bookstore closes, and why we couldn’t convert to Judaism, 2002
- A confession of doubt – How textual criticism led me to critically examine my faith and ecclesiology, 2001-2003
- Call His name Immanuel, Part One – Isaiah 7:14, biblical theology, and a key to understanding prophecy, 2003
- Cancer – Tracey’s sister is diagnosed with cancer, 2003
- O Dicaeopolis! – Taking ancient Greek in college, 2003-2004
- Veiled in flesh the Godhead see – Convinced again of the deity of Christ, 2003-2004
- Who decides? – The difference between what is “true” and what is “useful” in the predestination debate, 2003
- Going over the precipice – my first real experience with Calvinism on the Bible Answer Man show, November 2003
- How I spent my Christmas vacation – Starting research on the roots of Anglo-Israelism, December 2003
- Confused Persians and Englishmen – Wrapping up Anglo-Israelism research, December 2003
- Jesus saves, or makes men savable? – Giving in to the sovereignty and supremacy of God in salvation, December 2003-February 2004
- Balance, perspicuity, and breaking promises – A short note on why this is hard to write, and my own failures
- Mary vs. Israel — The realization that we would throw anything away to maintain certain myths, March 2004
- Introduction
- Never His earthly mother
- The Greek in John is quite clear
- Misused by most all schools
- No reason to buy either one yet
- John is full of errors
- You never answer my objections
- Very Catholic to accept this one
- I think that’s backwards
- A very compelling argument
- It is reporting objective truth
- How would you have written it?
Everything following this is what is in store for the future (and will be updated as actual posts and titles appear):
- Thirty things we don’t compromise, March 2004
- The winter of the teacher’s discontent, December 2003-March 2004
- “Jewish myths and endless genealogies”, March-April 2004
- My breaking point, April 2004
- “This is not the will of God”, April-May 2004
- Tiptoeing through the TULIP, April-June 2004
- “I’ll Fly Away”, June-July 2004
- The Reformation comes to Troy, August-December 2004
- “The Israel of God” (Galatians), Fall 2004
- Historylessness, Fall-Winter 2004
- Gonna party like it’s 1689 (MERBC), Winter 2004-2005
- Studying Hebrews (redemptive history, justification, polity), Spring 2005
- Hating the Bride, Winter 2004-2005
- Amillennialism, Spring-Summer 2005
- “Call His name Immanuel, Part Two” (Covenant Theology), Spring-Summer 2005
- “An overseer, then, must be above reproach” (The furlough, GCBC), Summer 2005
- Lordship Salvation: truly the “Way of the Master”, August-September 2005
- My mission field, Fall-Winter 2005
- Esteeming one day above another, Winter 2005
- Kicking away the last crutches, March 2006
- Beyond Classic Covenant Theology, July 2006
- The things that people remember about you (Morris’ death), September 2006
- Don’t waste your cirrhosis, October 2006
- On being the tin dog, Winter 2006
- Saying goodbye (moving), Winter 2006
- My final word to those still a part of Hebraic Roots or the old ministry
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