An invitation to a 1 hour Bible study on campus equates to full obedience to the ideology in this Blue Book.
It was rather shocking to read the blue book lectures because it codifies some of the things former members have been saying for more than 30 years.
I’ve written extensively on the content of this Blue Book. Here are my blog posts about this book:
Oh and just make sure you ask for the $10.00 paperback version. It contains a very important lecture that was changed for the public to see online, filtering out some statements that UBF leaders believe but don’t want you to see.
NOTE: Here is my series of over 30 articles explaining this further: “50th Anniversary book” (i.e. Blue Book).
]]>But as I read this book, I find sentence after sentence in this book relates to my experience “in” ubf and the process of leaving:
I had grown up. In my fundamentalist heritage, separation is the
belief that to maintain doctrinal purity, those who became apostate
and fall away from the fundamental faith had to be shunned. This
is called primary separation. Secondary separation takes this belief
a step further, requiring that those who don’t practice primary
separation have to be separated from as well. On both counts, I knew
I would be judged as guilty and apostate. When we left, speaking
engagements were cancelled, friendships were ended, and support
was withdrawn.I tried to laugh this off, but in reality, it stung deeply. I didn’t
understand how friends could so misunderstand my heart and
so easily assign bad motives to our efforts. I had thought that my
friendships were deeper than doctrinal differences, but it turned
out they weren’t. For the first time in my life, I felt alone, exposed,
and abandoned.(Source: Fundamorphosis, Robb Ryerse, Page 24)
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