Twelve Tribes David Alexander
Cult Twelve Tribe's headquarters searched for human remains (nine.com.au)
katoomba twelve tribes - Google Search
Twelve Tribes: inside religious sect’s Katoomba home | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
"I didn't feel any more saved than a pig in the mud" DA's state when entering the Twelve tribes (see here, min. 23.
"developed out of the evangelical Jesus Movement of the 1970s" It is silly and arrogant for anyone to sit as judge, that the Twelve Tribes churches are not an evangelical group. Their roots are totally evangelical." see here, min. 23-24.
Supported himself doing auto car interior repair (see here, min 17-18)."I want to be like Timothy, I can't find a Paul anywhere, " See here, min 16. Worked 3 1/2 days and ministered three and a half days. Gave away half the money he made and half the time.
"This was like the story of my life, I’d be like, ‘Okay, maybe this person’s an Apostle,' and I’d throw myself into believing in them, and following them, and get crushingly disappointed.” Minute 102 episode 3 here.
Twelve Tribes Community, Vista | San Diego Reader
Mary Dougherty Alexander Obituary - 2022 - Daly Leach Memorial Chapel (tributearchive.com)
About the only way I could express my faith
and my love for God and for Jesus was by doing my best to keep the commandments
of Christ that I saw in the Gospels (min 109)
successful in small business. (110) A thousand cshares of Apple Stock.
Sells what he has and starts a ministry in Wintersville about 5 10 minutes away.
Rented a space in a strip mall put oup a sign with a sign Open door Christian
fellowship lasted a year . 112-115
Crashes and burns in 1987 (118-119)
(3:84)
20:00-24:00 There’s no such thing as any authority to determine what is “recognized as being in the doctrinal range of orthodox evangelicalism.” It’s simply a matter of opinion. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion in digging through the garbage can of my 47 years in evangelical Christianity. The fact is, I asked Jesus into my heart and got saved in 1976 and spent my entire life, attending and or, starting myself churches that I would consider to be evangelical. The group you mention, that I was in fact a part of for sometime, started during the Jesus movement, in the early 1970s, as a Jesus People group in Chattanooga, Tennessee, called the Vine House, then moved to Vermont and became the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, and then they adopted the name The Twelve Tribes, realizing that there needed to be a regathering of the twelve tribes of Israel in the Last Days, which happens to be true. So they are simply just one of the seven or so evangelical Christian denominations that developed out of the Jesus Movement back in the 1970s. The other denominations that developed from the Jesus Movement being the Calvary Chapel Churches, that were started by Church Smith, in Anaheim California, no, not in Anaheim, in Costa Mesa, California, which split, and the split off, was by John Wimber. He had a Calvary Chapel Church in Annaheim, and he sparated and split off from the Calvary Chapel Churches and from Chuck Smith, and that became the Vinyard Churches under John Wimber. And, then, the Gospel Outreach Churches, that were started by Jim Durkin, and what branched off from Gospel Outreach, the Verbo Churches. And then the Christian Fellowship churches [Potter’s House] out of Prescott Arizona started by Wayman Mitchell, who split off from the Four Square Denomination. And I suppose you could also include C.J. Mahaney and Larry Tomczak’s group, initially TAG (Take and Give), and then they became the Pepole of Destiny. And sadly, they also became stanchly Calvinist, and changed the name of their denomination to Sovereign Grace Churches. And I am sure there are others. The Gospel outreach churches started under Jim Durkin, who had been an Assemblies of God pastor all his life, and that was their initial theology. And after his death most of the Gospel Outreach churches fell apart, and the few that remained, I think its about half-a-dozen, became staunchly Calvinist and now they call themselves Gospel Outreach Reformational churches. As one who came to faith in the Jesus Movement in 1976, I have attended and participated in and been part of, at one point or another, over that time, every one of the denominations that I list above, other than the Verbo churches, which are mostly hispanic…So I started three evangelical churches over that 47 years, or attended, or joined, or participated in some way, in six of those denominations I listed above. And I was with the seventh-day Baptists for eight years. Then the seventh-day adventists, and many others, such as the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Southern Baptists, Assemblies of God Churches, and so-called non-denominational Churches…I also spend many years researching, visiting and engaging with the churches that grew out of the Radical Reformation, the Anabaptists, Hutterites, Amish, and Mennonites, and the Bruderhof churches, which were for a time connected organizationally with the Hutterite Churches and then finally, the Twelve Trivbes Community Churches that also developed out of the evangelical Jesus Movement of the 1970s
mischracterizes having to follow all Church Smiths' teaching. Here min. 25 Mentions 12 Tribes in minute 55
1976 Jesus people from Jim Durkin's Gospel Outreach/Lighthouse Ranch in Eureka, CA came to DA's hometown of Olympia Washington and set up the House of Mercy Christian Commune. June 1976 DA went there one day and prayed to receive Christ What was this gospel they preached? Realize that you are a sinner, ask for God’s forgiveness based on the fact that Christ died for your sins, and ask Jesus to come into your heart. Do this, and God will forgive you, give you His Holy Spirit, and write your name in the Book of Life. Overwhelmed with guilt and despair, I gave my life to God according to this gospel. I cried and had a huge sense of release. But then he was told that "Once you were saved, if you wanted to become a whole-hearted follower of Jesus, you had to be willing to deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow Him. You had to forsake everything you owned by giving it to Gospel Outreach and live in community with them according to the pattern in Acts 2 & 4. You should then “obey them that have rule over you” and serve the Body in whatever way you were asked. You were told that Jim Durkin was one of God’s Apostles, sent in restoration of the government of God outlined in Ephesians 4:11. Lived in the House of Mercy Commune for 18 Months (presumably through December 1977)
Spring 1978 DA sent to Phoenix by Gospel Outreach to plant a new community there. Within a few months left Gospel Outreach disillusioned from meeting Durkin and from the movements abandonment of community of goods, making it "just another extremely small sect among 50,000 plus Christian sects." So he joined "a large Charismatic church to pursue my own self-directed and selfish middle-class life while still being a disciple of Jesus." 1979 DA doesn't give the name of the Church, but it was presumably the Valley Cathedral in Phoenix, where he got married on June 10, 1979. Soon after, starting in the new-marriage class, he became disillusioned and "began a 23-year search for a holy people that could give my conscience peace." Which places his conversion to the Twelve Tribe Group in about 2002. An article from October 2009 says had been in the Twelve Tribes Group for about 6 years (i.e., since 2003)
1976 Jesus people from Jim Durkin's Gospel Outreach in Eureka, CA came to DA's home town of Olympia Washington.
I moved my family 11 times over the next 23 years, through almost
20 different groups and movements that claimed to offer what I hoped for.
I would find a group that promised apostolic authority, community, and
love, throw my life and family into it, and then get crushingly disappointed.
This happened over and over and over again.
Three separate times I grew so hopeless of finding anything real that I took the proud step of trying to bring it into birth myself, starting at different times a street-level outreach, an urban neighborhood community church, and an apocalyptic rural Christian commune. I knew deep down I was in no spiritual condition to genuinely help anyone; it was the blind leading the blind all over again. I was unable to proclaim the true gospel because I had never received it or obeyed it myself, much less been sent from a people that had.
I moved my family 11 times over the next 23 years, through almost
20 different groups and movements that claimed to offer what I hoped for.
I would find a group that promised apostolic authority, community, and
love, throw my life and family into it, and then get crushingly disappointed.
This happened over and over and over again.
Three separate times I grew so hopeless of finding anything real that I took the proud step of trying to bring it into birth myself, starting at different times a street-level outreach, an urban neighborhood community church, and an apocalyptic rural Christian commune. I knew deep down I was in no spiritual condition to genuinely help anyone; it was the blind leading the blind all over again. I was unable to proclaim the true gospel because I had never received it or obeyed it myself, much less been sent from a people that had. He also says "he lost most of his family (which included Wife and Kids) March 17, 1995, Alexander was the pastor of a storefront church on Afton Square in the Craddock District of Portsmouth, Virginia, called Abundant Life Church associated with the Seventh-Day Baptists
He came across the Twelve Tribes website in November 21, 2002 and the next Saturday (Nov 23 or 30) drove 200 miles to a Twelve Tribes wedding, at which, he said: "For the first time in 48 years on this earth, I saw the Gospel and the Kingdom of God in a real demonstration of the love of John 13:35, the unity of John 17:21, the life of Acts 2 & 4, and the good government of Ephesians 4: 11. They preached the true Gospel to me in the power of the Spirit. I believed in it,and will forever.
1995
%20-%20Copy.png)
Comments
Post a Comment