Hey Glenn, Get A Pre-Nup!

Since I won't be seeing you before you get married, and in good conscience, I couldn't attend a "cult wedding" anyway; here is some advice that might be helpful for your future. Make sure you get a pre-nup agreement signed that establishes which religion your new family is going to be. This will help you avoid what happened to me.

Your mother and I were both raised in the Baptist Church and I thought I was marrying a Baptist and a Christian. Halfway through the marriage, I found out she was open to mysticism, speaking in tongues and glossolalia; and therefore was not a Christian. No true born-again Christian can accept the teachings of the Pentecostal Church (Barrie Victory Centre).

Since you and your fiancee are both currently involved in the Hoo-Haw church, you need to get it in writing that there will be no changing of religion halfway through the marriage unless you both agree that it is the right thing to do. God forbid that Joy Lynn should decide she doesn't want to do the Hoo-Haw thing anymore and becomes more interested in truth than in self-interest. Hoo-Haw is all about "me." (Read my previous blog.) It happens all the time. You need to protect your marriage from future failure. If you don't nail it down now, you could find yourself and your new wife going off in different directions and ultimately ending in the break-up of your marriage. This is what happened to me and that is why your mother and I are no longer together. I knew what I believed and why I believed it. She did not and unbeknowst to me at the time, she was not ever a true born-again Christian. If she were, the teachings of Barrie Victory Centre would not be acceptable.

I would likely still be married to your mother had she put family ahead of mysticism. By getting involved with speaking in tongues, glossolalia, and emotional hoo-haw, she created on-going turmoil in our home. When you don't know what you believe and why you believe it, you will fall for anything. This division eventually scuttled the marriage and made it clear to me that she was not a Christian. If you don't want this happening to you, get the pre-nup signed or you will have serious regrets later on. Most Pentecostals eventually tire of the constant emotional roller coaster ride. One of you will decide this before the other does and then the problems will start.

Just so you know, I didn't show up at the meeting at Tim Horton's because I thought the meeting was with you. I came alone and I expected you to come alone; but you didn't. When I saw Darren's car hidden over behind the beer store, I anticipated an ambush, by not one cultist but by two, so I just kept on driving and went back home. I do know that one of the cornerstones of cults is "Trust no-one outside the cult, especially family." That's why Darren was there when he had no business being there.

I know it's been over two years since we talked to each other, Glenn, but what I can't understand is, what is it that you are so afraid of that you can't talk to your father one on one? You should know by now that I have your best interests at heart, always have, always will. I would never lie to you or lead you away from truth. My goal as a parent has always been to direct my children towards truth and that hasn't changed. Once a father, always a father. Sorry about that!

After the failed meeting, and since my wife and I wanted to meet Joy Lynn, we invited both of you to go out for dinner to celebrate your engagement. We received a response from Joy Lynn which thanked us for the invitation and said that it would be nice to meet and she would be in touch with us. I'm not sure what happened next but we never heard another word. It soon became very clear to us that you were not interested in meeting with "us" but rather were only interested in meeting with "me." This can have only one purpose, and I am sure it was directed by the cult, to "divide and conquer." (put a wedge between us.) I cannot and will not allow this to happen. I have never been happier in my whole adult life. The cult may control you but it is not going to control me.

I have been told on one recent occasion that we are "only interested in you, Dad, we have no interest in having anything to do with your wife." I believe that the cult is responsible for this immature, childish, un-Christian attitude. My wife deserves to be treated with courtesy, kindness and respect. She is a human being. Almost twenty years have gone by since the mother of my children and I separated. It's time to grow up, move on, and act with true Christian love. God is Love -- He would not approve of this behaviour. You all need to get your act together on this issue. Anything less is totally unacceptable and will no longer be tolerated. It would be nice if we lived in a perfect world, but we don't. We have to make the best of the situations we find ourselves in. None of us will be perfect until we get to Heaven.

If you haven't already figured this out, here it is. My life would be a lot simplier, a lot easier, and have a lot less stress, if I didn't care and therein lies the main problem. Stated simply, it is obvious to me and I know with great and ever-increasing certainty, that since you have hooked up with Barrie Victory Centre, you have gone down a wrong road which will ultimately end with you being disillusioned, disappointed, deceived, likely poor, and so angry that you have been duped by false teaching and eventually will walk away from the church and never set foot in it again for years. This is why I am so deeply concerned about your involvement with Barrie Victory Centre.

This is exactly what happens to people who get involved with cults and finally figure out that it's a fraud. No good can come of it! It may take years, but sooner or later, you will find out that I am right. If you hear anything from this blog, hear this! Barrie Victory Centre is a cult and a cult of the worst kind because they are claiming to be Christian and nothing could be further from the truth. I guess your life would be better if I stopped caring? Keeping my mouth shut is easy; fighting for truth and the souls of my children and their families is hard. Sorry I can't keep my mouth shut! I will continue to write this blog until your eternal souls are back in the fold and out of the hands of Satan. "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul." If you believe the teachings of Barrie Victory Centre, you will never see eternity in Heaven.

The only way that someone can keep their mouth shut when their children are involved with a well-known cult which there is plenty of literature available on, is because that person is not a Christian. How could someone who claims to be a Christian stand idly by while their children go further and further away from truth. The only way that this could happen would be if that person were not a Christian.

I know a family where the mother is claiming to be a Christian (I don't know this to be a fact) who has two children involved with the Jehovah's Witnesses and two children involved with Barrie Victory Centre (also a cult). She welcomes all the cultists into her home on a regular basis and has nothing to say to any of them. There can only be one reason for this and that reason is this, she cannot possibly be a Christian. She will have to answer someday for keeping silent on Satan's behalf.

If you were brought up in the United Church, you could very easily fall into the hands of a cult because the United Church does not believe the Bible to be inspired Truth from cover to cover. Again, I ask, how does this parent keep silent and allow family get-togethers to continue under these circumstances? What's more important - family or the destination of one's eternal soul? If you put your family ahead of their eternal soul's destination, I guess it's easy to keep your mouth shut. Just what Satan wants!

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men (and women) to do nothing!