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#6 Who Is Bill Gothard? Pt.2
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#6 Who Is Bill Gothard? Pt.2

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Christy finishes her episode about Bill Gothard and his teachings by looking into the impact his Basic Seminar has had on the mainstream Christian people who attended. Many people went to a seminar once or twice, but never got into the cultic whirl pool far enough to realize how wrong and twisted his teachings were. They went to the seminar and then went home.

Mainstream churches hosted Gothard's seminars and then went on with their lives. The leaders never got in deep enough to recognize how destructive the seminars were.

Christy attended a local church for five years and never realized it was the same church where she taught at a Basic Seminar twenty years earlier. It wasn't until she left that she discovered that church hosted Gothard for over a decade.

We must recognize and reject the IBLP teachings in order to be free. They are so sneaky and so subtle that they feel true, and yet they will damage every relationship in our lives if we don't root them out.


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Christy Lynne Wood spent a decade in Bill Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles (as seen on Amazon Prime's "Shiny Happy People" documentary series). Homeschooled in this Christian cult, Christy was a good girl following the rules until Jesus unexpectedly showed up and changed everything.
As Christy got to know Jesus for herself, she began to recognize that the God she knew and the god her cult talked about couldn't be the same God. Once the good girl following the rules, Christy felt a strange rebellion creeping into her heart. But it wasn't rock music, college, or blue jeans that was turning her into a rebel (like she'd been warned), it was Jesus.
Twenty years later, Christy is still passionate about discovering truth, destroying lies, exposing religious Christianity, and helping others find a thriving relationship with the Real Jesus.