Woman’s Day Special Report of 24th July 2017 ... Australia’s Most Infamous Cults .... on Page 39
BRISBANE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
From the outside it looks like any other Christian church, but former members claim that the Brisbane Christian Fellowship has been tearing families apart for years.
Former follower Helen Pomery says church elders preach sacrifice and obedience. “I had to submit to the church elders and I had to cut off my daughter,” she reveals in an interview in 2010,
Followers are taught that a woman’s body is her husband’s body, meaning he has the right to demand it whenever he chooses. And despite many female ex-members claiming they lived a life of servitude and were forced to submit and be obedient to their husbands, the sect still has a significant following worldwide.
The "Infamous Cults" listed in order are:---
1. The Family .... led by their cult leader Anne Hamilton Byrne
2. Children of God .... led by their ex-pastor leader David Brandt Berg
3. Brisbane Christian Fellowship
4. Twelve Tribes .... founded in the US in the Seventies by former school counsellor Eugene Spriggs
BCF lumped together with these seriously Cultish groups does the BCF image no good at all. What is more significant is that placed with this readership is potentially far more damaging than anything previously as this is the stuff of coffee conversations, reading at the hairdressers, and reading at Doctor and Dentist waiting rooms all around the nation.
My guess is that this is one league table which Vic would never want BCF to appear on.
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