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A hospital worker on the gap between 'saved by grace, not works' and being quietly judged for missing church on a work weekend, and growing his hair out just to make a point.
A husband and wife raised in the IFB describe over thirty years under a pastor whose control over their family reached the point of editing the letters he sent to his own parents, and the years it took to recognize it.
"The Untold Story of Anna Compton" — a firsthand account written by Larry and Terri Compton about their daughter's illness and death from cancer, and how church leaders repeatedly told them her lack of healing, and later her death, was their own fault for lacking faith.
Read it on their site →See also the internal church document describing the isolation practice referenced in this account:
Principles of Isolation: A Review for Parents →"My Journey Out of an IFB Cult" — raised from birth in a small, tightly controlled IFB church, this account includes a memory of a pastor having a visiting woman escorted out of a service for wearing pants.
Read it on Recovering Fundamentalist → archived copy"Why I Left the IFB" — growing up in an IFB church in North Carolina, and the role a spouse raised outside that world played in finally seeing it clearly.
Read it on Recovering Fundamentalist → archived copy"Our Exodus from the IFB" — a couple's account of quiet burnout after years serving in children's ministry, and the letter they eventually wrote their pastor to explain their departure.
Read it on Recovering Fundamentalist →"The Wilderness Between Legalism and Grace" — a blog series on leaving a conservative fundamentalist upbringing and slowly finding a grace-centered faith on the other side. Not IFB-specific, but the pattern will be familiar.
Read it on their site → archived copy