Breaking Free Ministries USA
A Search For Truth (Part VI)



















BREAKING FREE MINISTRY                                     
After many discussions and prayer, my wife and I decided to start Breaking Free Fellowship. Since
my wife and I had spent most of our Christian history in mixed congregations, we felt God wanted
us to deal with racial reconciliation. Therefore, our main theme of our ministry was racial
reconciliation through Christ. To inform the general public of our existence, we placed an
advertisement in the local paper:                            
                                          "Gathering of Peoples"                                     
                        Sunday - May 5, 1994 - 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.            
               Workshops: Racial Reconciliation - Is It Reality Possible?
               True Relations - What Does Love Got To Do With Them?                
     Working to Make Sunday Mornings At 11 O'Clock the Most Integrated Hour
                         Instead of the Most Segregated Hour of the Week!

In preparation for our grand opening, I had written many pamphlets on various subjects that I
offered free to those who desired to study that subject deeper.

After some success with the fellowship, we accepted another couple, who had previously been pastors
in a church in another state, to join us as co-pastors. But looking back we should not have asked for
their help, since they caused divisions in the fellowship, disagreeing with many decisions my wife and
I made.  Afterward, my wife and I decided to end Breaking Free Fellowship. We realized too late that
it would be impossible for us to work together with our co-pastors because of the differences in the
way we approach things spiritually. Two vital lessons were learned. First, before asking anyone to
join as co-pastors, those who are pastors [in our case, my wife and I] should have been in 100%
agreement in regards to the matter. Second, becoming a co-pastor is something you earn by working
with a fellowship for a period of time. This would have given us more time to learn whether we could
work with them in ministry.                                           

MOVED TO MAINE                                                      
Soon after the ending of Breaking Free Fellowship, my wife had the opportunity to accept a new job
in Falmouth, Maine. She loved the idea of living in Maine because she felt the new environment
would inspire her writing, which she loves dearly. We had once visited a friend of Jan a few years
back who lives in Maine. They had met a few years earlier while being missionaries in Haiti.               
                 
Being a supportive husband, I also resigned my job as a maintenance man for the Lawrence Housing
Authority so we could be together in Maine. She was now able to devote more time to writing, while
waiting upon God's continued directions.

TRUE CHRISTIANITY ~ My Search Has Ended        
With God's help I have come to the following conclusions:
* Perfect Christianity is not within any one church or group of people who are Christians. Within the
Body of Christ, God's church, there are individuals at various levels of spiritual growth. Christians
are not perfect people like some Christians and non-Christians expect them to be. All Christians are
saved by grace and not by works.
*  God does not have just one denomination as His "true church." If any church claims they are
God's only true representatives on this earth, it is a cult, a false Christian religious group.
* Even though there are many different Christian denominations, God accepts all of them as being
part of the Body of Christ as long as they believe and teach the basic doctrines of Christianity. Of
those churches, it is a personal decision of which church is best for you depending upon many
circumstances, including your personality and other doctrinal beliefs you feel are acceptable or not
acceptable.
*  The differences in Christian doctrines that are not essential doctrines should not divide the Body
of Christ: "Doctrines are as numerous as there are individual Christians! The belief that [all]
Christians ought to have a common creed on these matters is impractical and impossible. And such
an assumption violates the scriptural teaching that we ought to be growing in the grace and
knowledge of God (II Peter 3:18).10

Every Christian denomination is still growing in the grace and knowledge of God! Complete
agreement among Christians in regard to doctrines will not happen until we all reach glorification,
but until then, we should learn to respect with love each other  Christian point of view.

* "The real factor in fellowship [among Christian churches/its members] involves walking in the fruit
of the Holy Spirit?" 12          

But please be warned that many cults practice some of the fruits of the Spirit, but totally disregard
some fundamental Christian doctrines. All Christians should be walking in the fruits of the Holy
Spirit and all Christian denominations should be teaching the basic fundamental Christians
doctrines.

FOOTNOTES:                                                             
1Associated Press, Maine Sunday Telegram, Dec. 22, 1996: 12A         2Walter Martin, "The Unity
School of Christianity,: The Kingdom of the Cults,  Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House
Publishers, 1995, p. 294                   
3Personal letter to me from the Letter Answering Dept., Worldwide Church of God, Jan. 13, 1964       
4Letter to me from the Letter Answering Dept              
5Letter to me from the Letter Answering Dept.
6You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth. Watchtower  Bible & Tract Society of N. Y., 1982, p.
190                                                    7Andrews, William L. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black
Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986   
                                                                      8Ibid                                                                             
9Ibid                                                                           
10Ernest Martin. The Abuse of Fellowship. Foundation for Biblical Research, p. 4                           
11Ibid, p. 6