Now 30, the journalist reflects on a decade of laughter and heartache. Pro The Exclusive Brethren Christian Fellowship (Pro) Note: The site has since been renamed to plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org, to reflect the movements misleading name change, in 2012. [24] The Stewards' trust was established in 1919 to provide financial support to Brethren assemblies, and currently owns around 150 of the 200-odd Brethren assembly properties in New Zealand. I felt like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. The following are some of the institutions that are widely supported by Brethren assemblies in New Zealand. Diana: "I had a great family life, I loved Mum and Dad and my brothers." An estimated 5000 of those are Exclusive, with 40,000 worldwide. The most serious charges were dropped. I knew there was no future for me in the sect. Members of the Exclusive Brethren do not make friends, or even eat with people outside their church. Going to the movies meant planning an elaborate cover story, taking a circuitous route to avoid being followed, checking for sect members, and pulling a hood over my face before making the quick dash across Invercargill's Dee St and into Reading Cinemas. Craig didn't want to the leave the sect, but felt it was inevitable. Many Exclusive Brethren work in Brethren-owned companies, so they have to give up their jobs as well as their family and their home if they leave the faith. An anguished wail from an aunt still rings in my ears. I was told I was rebellious and had a problem with authority. Pro/Contra My Brethren (Pro and Contra) History and Ministry of the Exclusive Brethren (so-called). Attitudes since have become much more diverse, however. Some negative features cant be avoided, but my intent is to present a positive and comprehensive outline of the history and ministry of the recovery of the truth. When the Herald on Sunday approached Dargaville Brethren businessmen to set the record straight about their way of life, most politely dismissed us. In reality, this extremist movement is a cult or sect of the Plymouth Brethren. When a member falls out of line, or is perceived to fall out of line, the first step in the process is for that person to be 'shut up'. Our social lives were bound up with other sect members and, by the time I reached my teens, my peers and I were well and truly enmeshed. The international community is run by the "Man of God", who has absolute power to dictate the church's rules. I still know him well. This is based on the Biblical procedure for the treatment of lepers, and involves being isolated from family and friends and only allowed to see specially chosen church members until local church leaders believe that God has forgiven the person. But there were no "worldly" friends over to play, no going to the worldly kids' parties, no overnight school camps, no inter-school sports. Known as fair, honest employers and reliable, skilful tradesmen. The Exclusive Brethren - now rebranded the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church - says it does not own, operate or hold any commercial business interests itself, but members run their own "family businesses". By the time I was born, in the late autumn of 1989, the Exclusive Brethren had morphed into an oppressive sect that tightly managed every aspect of its members' lives. My kids don't know their grandparents as grandparents. Sadie Stewart, 16, James Wearmouth, 18, and Susanna Stewart, 48, died when the ute driven by Russell Stewart crashed into a tree. They are using church connections to run their business and control people.". The first beginnings of the Brethren movement occurred in the 1820s, when Darby, then an Anglican clergyman in the Church of Ireland, began meeting with others who shared his serious doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and, indeed, about the biblical warrant for any sort of clerical class. After the UK Charity Commissions refusal to grant Charity Status to the Exclusive Brethren, in the summer of 2012, an observer provided a series of explanatory comments regarding that decision: 2.10 Misleading information: whilst it is of course legitimate to change a name and reconstruct a website, it should not be done in such a way as to make it appear that it involves an entirely different organisation. For him, too, the forced distancing from his parents hurt the most. The Charismatic movement has been very controversial in Brethren circles. Darby held that true Christians should separate not only from the churches, which were corrupt, but also from those who were impure in faith or morals. And what if another family member leaves the sect? Children are often educated within the Brethren community, although many Brethren children do attend mainstream schools. So at first pass, hardly the Machiavellian, freakish, hostile weirdos you might expect from all the reports. It was one of the worst cases of neglect to come before a racing authority. Photo: Supplied. It was a surreal transition. "If you understood the way they were brought up, we've got everything that we need in the fellowship, and they don't need to do that so it doesn't really come up, because they don't want to, really." They ban technology. It was too much to bear, and a few days later I packed a bag and ran away. He was sympathetic to my plight but made clear there was no place for gay people, warning me "never accept yourself for who you are". The first shows I watched were The Simpsons and Family Guy. In early days, the group was less restrictive; the founders simply shunned the trappings of modern religion and committed themselves to a life following biblical teachings. Perhaps you're an uncle by now. You can't ever really escape a Brethren upbringing. "I got on very well with my father, and I was never there in the years you want to be there, when they get old and you want to do their lawns." They were required to wear dresses or skirts, have long hair and very minimalist or no makeup, hair dye and jewellery. Families do not have televisions, radios or computers, or go to the cinema or theatre. It was a decision that changed my life. Brethren and their companies are encouraged to buy their supplies, groceries, petrol, internet, insurance - the whole range of goods and services - from companies that give cash back to the church through a range of kickback arrangements. Though their businesses bring them into daily contact with non-Brethrens, Brethren rules forbid socialising with "worldly" outsiders. I wish him well.". Some post-1959 ministry had already been included, and this practice will be continued. If brethren and sisters continue to fellowship with other professing Christians who hold and practise the sign-gifts they will have to withdraw because we will have nothing to do with these practices. Sarah Hall was a veteran TV3 journalist, although to me, fresh out of the Exclusive Brethren in November 2009, that meant nothing. See also the articles in our news tracker. Contra Peebs.net (Contra) This web site deals with the Exclusive Brethren from a critical perspective. But Exclusive Brethren are a cult. At the age of 20, I found myself learning the ways of the world for the first time, and was baffled by how it all worked. The man, who has name suppression, was being considered for parolelast week. "Group buying is a common business practice, using the power of group buying to deliver improved pricing or other benefits (such as rebates). The board of the Arise Church is promising changes as its founding members resign amid abuse allegations. Profits from UBT are funnelled as donations into the National Assistance Fund (NAF), which then sends the receipts back to UBT to cut the tax. If they dont they are withdrawn from i.e. The world at my doorstep is bursting with opportunity and excitement. It was the first time I'd seen two men so openly showing public affection. The Exclusive Brethren practice the doctrine of separation: they eat, sleep and live apart from the world, except when doing business with 'worldly' people. The broker, whom RNZ has agreed not to name, said while they were not doing anything illegal, he was uncomfortable with the way in which the church treated former members in particular. To continue to sit in the illusion that we and only we are right is a presumption only, a self-enhancing propaganda learned over the years to the detriment of Gods testimony, not to breakdown, but to the mind of Man erring in doctrine and practice. There has been much speculation as to why the website disappeared. Within this site you will find explanations, stories, history and Exclusive Brethren memorabilia ranging from the quaint to the shocking. Petrie, then 74, was jailed for2 years for the offences. They're all free, just like you". [4], It is not a denomination in the organizational sense, but a loose network of like-minded autonomous local churches, or "assemblies", as Brethren churches are generally known. He settled in Motueka which is still the religion's New Zealand stronghold. The list appears to have been compiled originally by a member of that fellowship at some time after 1970. I watched TV news in wonder, and laughed as a current affairs reporter challenged a scam artist he claimed to be calling from England, but was unable to name any of the Queen's four children. However, he baulked at paying hundreds of dollars a month to join UBT for "business advice" he did not have time to read or services he did not need. Despite the claim that Plymouth Brethren Christian Church is the historic name (http://www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org/) it is an entirely new invention. *Their names have been changed to protect their identities. The leaders get the children drinking it. Other rules ban public entertainment, novels, eating with outsiders, university, membership of other organisations, shorts or ties for men, mobile phones and PCs (allowed to use them for business but not own them). "The thing I find disturbing is these are businesses, so their insurance premiums are tax deductible and on top of that they also claim back the GST - so I view it almost like a legalised form of money laundering. "We had to go to business meetings, paid thousands of dollars to go to business meetings all round New Zealand. At one church service it was said the spirit of God departed from us if we ever crossed the threshold of a cinema the next time I was at the movies I stepped backwards and forwards through the doorway to see whether it felt any different (it didn't). The leader of the Exclusive Brethren church, Bruce Hales. Later, when I called in to pick up some extra things, I saw my 9-year-old sister. No member is allowed to eat in the same room as a worldly person, they are forbidden from owning a pet and they are restricted from socialising with anyone outside of the Exclusive Brethren. They are distinguished from the Open Brethren from whom they separated in 1848. [], Members see the head of their church as a servant leader who puts his lives at the disposal of others. In December 2007, not long after my ultimate confession, I was ushered to a consultation with Hales when he visited Invercargill for special church meetings. A flowchart illustrates how the Exclusive Brethren - or Plymouth Brethren Christian Church - money-go-round works. The site itself is no longer online. The Exclusive Brethren are a subset of the Christian evangelical movement generally described as the Plymouth Brethren. The Exclusive Brethren church has been using the controversial private investigators Thompson and Clark to spy on former members of the church. A strong family-centred way of life ensures a further cocoon from the world. Video first published in 2015. Aformer member believes Stewart hasbeen 'shut up' a Brethren term which is usually the first step towards being excommunicated, andmeans the person is barred from speaking to other members of the church, eating or socialising with them, and from attending the daily church meetings which everyone is expected to attend. As well as forcing Brethren businesses to purchase locked-down computers, phones and IT services, UBT also charged "consultancy fees", which could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even started taking controlling stakes in profitable companies through a venture called Vision Accelerator. Instead I felt condemned to struggle against the essence of who I was. They cannot form friendships, or eat with people outside the church -- who are known as "worldlies". The Exclusive Brethren are a subset of the Christian evangelical movement generally described as the Plymouth Brethren. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Exclusive Brethren movement is an extremist branch or sect of the Plymouth Brethren. (I was lucky to have the first eight years of my education in the public system, which gave me limited exposure to non-Brethren kids, but these days sect children are educated entirely within the Brethren system.) Jim Taylor taught that Jesus was human when he was born and did not become fully divine until later; either when he was 12, or at his baptism. Television is a strange thing. He doesn't go to the same church as I do of course.". The Exclusive Brethren is not a democratic movement, nor do individual congregations have any autonomy. A flowchart illustrates how the Exclusive Brethren - or Plymouth Brethren Christian Church - money-go-round works. The worldwide leader of the Exclusive Brethren, having ruled since his father John Hales died in January 2002, he had a penchant for good food and an even greater penchant for good whisky. Yet the Brethren experience hovers in my periphery; a mesh of traumatic memories. John Hales was eventually accepted back into the church and became its global leader - but the commercial system was not revived until after his death when his son, Bruce Hales, took over. It was one of those scorching Australian summer days where the tempo slows, as though the very effort of moving is too much. Initially, they saw no need for any but the simplest pattern of organization, and their separation from all existing churches was not conceived as a negative decision, but rather as the only basis on which the unity of true Christians could be established. They were a picture of languid happiness, sitting there in the sun. Another ex-member, whom RNZ has agreed not to name, said he managed to hold onto his position in the family business, despite huge pressure from church leaders - but said many others were not so fortunate. But not all members can live such a controlled existence. Helen Clark's calling for Don Brash to step down as National Party leader because of his now-renounced relations with Exclusive Brethren lobbyists. Although widely welcomed at first, both found themselves increasingly isolated as their Charismatic sympathies became known and Brethren leaders like Robert Laidlaw, William H. Pettit, Enoch Coppin, Colin Graham, and Ces Hilton, along with J. This is quite different from mainstream Christian belief, which says that Jesus was always fully God and fully man. Those who break the rules can be punished by being banned from worship meetings and ostracised by members of their own family and other Exclusives who withdraw from such a person. Latest items: Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner, Abusive Churches/Spiritual Abuse Cult FAQ. With no TV or stereo, most kids learnt to play instruments and played together. This was followed up by a visit by Darby himself later in 1875. It's led to some amazing experiences, and a few hair-raising ones to boot. Two months ago that name did not exist. Pathways College is a Tauranga-based theological seminary formed in February 2000 by the merger of two older Brethren[30] institutions: New Zealand Assembly Bible School and GLO Training Centre. Apologetics Index curates research resources on religious movements, cults, sects, world religions and related issues. Non-members are called 'worldlies'. This system was all I had known, it was all my parents had known, and all their parents and grandparents had known before them. You'd think it would be cause for celebration, but it can be agonising to have someone reappear. The Green Party's demanding the group loses its exemption from labour laws requiring union access to work sites, since the cosying up to political parties makes a mockery of the basis for that exemption - finding association with any outside organisation unconscionable. NZ POLICE Russell Stewart,. The main gospel hall in Dargaville resembles a converted factory, with narrow frosted windows on one side only. Peebs.Net is a website that endeavors to investigate and report the Truth behind the Exclusive Brethren, a group of so-called Christians, and by so doing, help break the chains and break down the barriers that prevent us from seeing our families, friends and loved ones, trapped in what many are calling a bona fide Cult. Despite ongoing external and internal attacks, from 1827 onwards, a continuing spiritual ministry opened up many precious truths , The main objective of this site therefore is to, The headline refers to a story in the Sunday Star Times (New Zealand). Sarah and I got caught up in a media scrum with the Kardashian family while filming an unrelated story in Yerevan, and joked to local Armenian reporters that we'd come all the way from New Zealand to see Kim and Kanye. It's understood he was allowed back into the church after his sentence finished. Families do not have televisions, radios or computers, or go to the cinema or theatre. Jeff Wearmouth, whose son James was killed in the June 2016 crash which Stewart was convicted for,said he was surprised to hear Stewart had been 'shut up'. 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They are evil. doctrine) to which they subscribed. They're highly regarded in business circles. Graeme Hubbard left the Exclusive Brethren at 21. "Most girls were there to check out the guys rather than listen to the word of God. * A national trust, run by three of the Secret Seven who bankrolled the anti-government pamphlets last year, now operates 15 regional campuses under the umbrella of Westmount School. As a network rather than an organization, the Christian Community Churches of New Zealand do not own or run any institutions. It was organised through Universal Business Team (UBT), a business . It operates bookshops and a publishing house, and, for many years, published the Treasury magazine. We had virtually no contact with people outside the Exclusive Brethren, and there were rules for every part of our lives. They sought to restore what they saw as the biblical pattern of order which would allow them to live in conformity with the will of God, and which had been corrupted by the development of the ecclesiastical systems of existing churches. NAF then dishes out grants to PBCC trusts, which are not registered charities and therefore not subject to any scrutiny. Mum had a honey-coloured guitar. I left Hong Kong on October 31 last year, the 10-year anniversary of my final excommunication from the Exclusive Brethren. Instead, I felt envy, and a touch of internalised judgment. They recommended that I become a journalist, and took me in to TV3 to meet their executive producer. Former members say the church has a centralised hierarchy, and everyone is expected to show absolute loyalty to the Sydney-based supreme leader Bruce Hales. I had further meetings with Bruce Hales, and he told me to consult a Brethren doctor to receive treatment for my "condition". All members must follow the rigid code of behaviour and rules that govern the contact they can have with outsiders. The following few months were the worst of my life. The secretive, cult-like church says its members volunteer their time to contribute to society, but an RNZ investigation has found hundreds of thousands of dollars were sent every year to a Sydney. "It's like the inside of a golf ball in there, everything is all tied together, with a very centralised structure and power dynamic.". I think they expected we'd go back and were surprised when we didn't. These confessions came to a head when one day, feeling completely broken, I finally confessed to being gay. A fascinating tale of power exercised across several continents, this is also a moving story of damaged lives, broken families, and anger that stretches back decades. Most work in Exclusive Brethren businesses, so leaving means losing their job. McAlpine and Wallis both returned to the United Kingdom, and subsequently left the Brethren movement to help found the House Church Movement. I followed anarchists for a documentary in Greece, and spent much of the past 18 months living in Hong Kong, where I reported from the frontlines of violent protests. Last week. Meanwhile, the political storm around the Exclusive Brethren intensifies. "It's beentraumatising but from my perspective and my family'swe've been very free in a Christian spirit to forgive Russell. Two young girls who left recently are pregnant already," says Adrian. One of them lifted his bare feet onto the lap of the other and leaned back in his chair. "You don't get someone blaming Presbyterians when someone who has a Presbyterian association does something. The Exclusive Brethren who separated from the Open Brethren in 1848 and adhere to a rigid code of . If they do not, they are banned from worship or are isolated from family and only allowed to see particular church members until the ordained priests decide that God has forgiven the "sinner". I knew I was breaking her heart, but had no choice. Watch this clip from the 2005 documentary Leaving the Exclusive Brethren, which includes rare interviews with young members of the church. Separate Lives [Transcripts | Video] An edition of the Four Corners investigative journalism TV program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. []. The sites objectives are stated as follows: My Brethren deals mainly but not exclusively with the history and ministry of JND, JBS, FER, CAC, JT, GRC. From that moment it's as though you've died, and all public traces of your existence are scrubbed from the record. The early Brethren believed that, by separating from what they regarded as the unwarranted and unlegitimated system that was represented by the organization of churches, they possessed an adequate basis for the unity of all properly motivated Christians. New rules came thick and fast from the 1960s, when the world leader of the time James Taylor Jnr, an alcoholic businessman from Brooklyn, New York enforced the principle of "separation". Such clandestine adventures frequently led to feelings of guilt and shame, and I regularly confessed my so-called sins to the Brethren "priests" as a teenager. Until then my transgressions had been minor offences that could be excused away; forgiven, with a warning not to repeat my mistakes. 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It remains the most painful experience of his life. * Firms clustered in around 40 towns and cities, mostly provincial centres Numerous questions are explored, such as What exactly was their interest in politics? Enter your email address to subscribe. (The terms "conservative" and "progressive" are often informally used to describe the emphasis, or lack of emphasis, that Brethren assemblies and individuals put on matters of doctrine, worship, and church order which distinguish them from other Evangelical Christians). The Brethren movement began in Dublin in the 1820s, and split into the Open and Exclusive Brethren in the 1840s. In April 2009, finally ready to make my move, I called a meeting with the priests and told them I was leaving the Exclusive Brethren. nd to my brethren in the various connections resulting from the 1959 and 1970 crises, who seek to walk in the light and in truth. Theologically, it is a cult of Christianity. 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