Our Mission for the Coming Year

Reflecting back on the past year I realized that while we have spent much time exposing the ntcc for the hypocrisy that they are involved in, the purpose of what I feel is important sometimes seems to become lost in translation.  One of the primary reasons that we started this blog is to help people.  Not only to help folks get past their experience in the ntcc, but also to help people realize that they can be a Christian outside of the ntcc.  I don't know if this is a popular concept in the X-er community.  I realize that there are many folks that have chosen not to have anything to do with Christianity since they left.  I completely understand this; and  I respect the right for an individual to make their own decisions.  After being in a controlling and manipulative cult, the last thing that we want to do is to attempt to force-feed Christianity to anyone.

We are not here to condemn anyone or to imply that we have obtained perfection and are better than anyone else.  But what we would like to do is to help simplify a way of life that has been made complex and almost impossible to folks that were in the ntcc.  We have been very outspoken against the ntcc and will continue to be.  We see the ntcc as an organization that has ruined many lives; and we think it is very important to measure them by their own standards, their own words and by the book which they claim to follow strictly.  Most Xers experience life-lasting damage from their experience with the ntcc.  One of the very common denominators in the transition from the ntcc to the real world is that people lose hope in God.  They have been taught that the ntcc has a monopoly on Christianity and that outside of this organization there is no hope.  This is a common tactic of cults: to make their followers believe that they have the only true doctrine and an inside track to eternal bliss.

We think that the most important step of recovery must first be to realize that the ntcc is a harmful organization that is doing more to hurt you than it is to help you.  Once a person makes the decision to leave the ntcc, there is a recovery process that takes place.  Your mind has to be freed from the lies that have been instilled in your system of beliefs.  This is not something that happens overnight.  Knowing the bible as well as many X-ers do, there are good things and bad things that make up your belief system.  The basics are all there.  Salvation through the blood of Jesus, the difference between right and wrong and the choices we make.  Things begin to get blurry when we start talking about Grace and Mercy.  How much grace and mercy does God have toward us?  And does this give us a license to sin?

I want to share what I believe right now; and this is not cut and dry, or 'my way or the highway'.  This is what I have experienced; and I  hope that it helps someone.  I believe that Christianity is meant to be enjoyable; and that God is not looking down from heaven expecting us to fail.  I don't think that God has made Christianity so difficult and complex that we can't figure it out on our own.  I do think that God has given us His Word as a light and a map, directions to heaven.  I also think that prayer is very important in a Christian's life.  Beyond these two things I believe that our relationship with God becomes personal; and that He guides us and delivers us according to our ability to listen to what He wants in our lives.

 Freedom in Christ -
 Washed In His Blood! 

When I left the ntcc, I had pretty much given up on God.  I didn't hate God; but I didn't love Him either.  I wasn't a Christian anymore;  but I tried my best not to curse Him or to mock Him.  I always thought that there was no way for me to get back to God because of the doom and gloom that was imposed on me by the false teachings of the ntcc.  I also experienced the freedom to make my own choices and decisions.  When Ange reached out to me and helped me without condemning me, against everything I thought possible, I came back to Christ; and it was real and meaningful!  I will forever be thankful to God and Ange for this second chance in life.  To me this is what mercy and grace is all about.  I can't think of anyone in this world that deserves God's love and grace less than I do; but Jesus loves me in spite of everything.  It's real every day.  I ask God for help every day and he steers me away from temptation and allows me to enjoy His creation and to enjoy my salvation.  I enjoyed my salvation somewhat in the ntcc; but there were so many limits to what you could do, and how you could live; that it all seemed to be more of a drudgery than anything else.  Strict rules that are not in the bible were imposed on us and they kept us down.  They held us back.  If God became great in our lives we were a threat to the ntcc leadership and were quickly beaten down into a place of subjection to men that had different motives and intentions.

Clone Conditions in NTCC -
 You Are Okay IF You Obey
 The NTCC System of Rules 

We were pure; but through time we became broken in their system of man-made rules and limits.  The longer we stayed, the more we became less like the children of God and more a part of an assimilation into an organization that kept us blind, powerless and in submission to the leaders of a destructive cult.

 Become One With Us:
 * In Rules We Trust * 

I believe that it takes time to recover from this experience and that leaving the ntcc is a huge step towards recovery.  The problem is that when we leave we realize that we have become so dependent on the ntcc system and it's leaders that we have a hard time transitioning into normalcy.  Ordinary decisions that people make every day by themselves become difficult to process in our own minds because we have always had to "ask permission" or compare our ideas to those of our self-proclaimed leaders.  We have been so accustomed to rebuke and correction for every little decision we made that we seldom trusted our own judgement.  When and if our eyes are opened to the perversion of the gospel that we experienced inside the ntcc we realize that we are at a huge disadvantage having wasted such a large portion of our lives.  We were so indoctrinated and dependent on the ntcc that when we experience freedom it's overwhelming and many people find themselves institutionalized into believing they can't survive on their own.  We were not accustomed to using our own brains in the ntcc; and our rationalization skills were non-existent.

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I am a middle-aged man; and it took 13 years in the ntcc and 14 more years of freedom from this cult to realize that I could be a Christian without them.  Because of this realization, it is now more important than ever to try to help folks get out and to help those that are out.  We hope that in all that we do, we can help people.  We realize that people have been bible thumped to death by the ntcc; and that many are not looking for spiritual advice.  We have chosen the Christian path for ourselves; but we also hope that what we write helps people to make responsible decisions regarding their own future.  One thing that we will always do is point to the obvious; and there are many blatant and obvious examples of hypocrisy and evil in the ntcc.  We will point this out; because the ntcc has imposed their standards on the masses and felt no obligation to live accordingly themselves.

We welcome all points of view on this blog; and we try to be real here.  Most people that frequent this blog have been part of the ntcc or a similar cult.  Knowing that people have been fed a steady diet of cult doctrine mixed with Christianity we try to be careful not to turn anyone completely off by preaching to them; and we endeavor to not look down on anyone, as was the practice of the ntcc.  All one has to do to realize that the ntcc is a cult is to look at the life of Jesus and compare it to how the ntcc leadership operates.  They are direct opposites.

We wish everyone a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2012!