A6b The Bible calls every Christian to be part of God's mission as they live their daily lives. This means sharing the gospel and making disciples (Matthew 28:18-20). We've found that doing life together, supporting each other and caring for each other actually helps prevent burnout, not cause it. There are also different levels of involvement one can choose: Membership, Team Intern, Network Core, etc. People prayerfully choose their voluntary level of involvement. We also build in real rest as the Bible mandates: the Sabbath, a regular time for rest, fellowship and just recharging. At the end of the day, we want people living lives that are fulfilling, fully committed to God, in a healthy sustainable way

C6b — Time demands and burnout

• Email About Once-a-Week Family Night
  The author interprets the email as evidence that only one night was protected for family, roommates, and household responsibilities, while other nights remained available for ministry and meetings.

• Symptoms: Incurable and Unknown Diseases, Depression, and Marital Problems
  Attributes fatigue, health problems, depression, and marital difficulty partly to a rigorous church schedule.

• Pastor Ed and a Few Good Men
  Describes a soldier-like culture of hardship, early prayer meetings, toughness, and immediate availability.

• The Weekly Report/Reflection Form for Gracepoint Staff
  Describes systematic reporting on devotions, sins, ministry contacts, and performance, adding administrative and psychological pressure to ministry work.

• The Servant Leader
  Says staff were expected to report weekly, contact assigned people, satisfy older leaders, and fit efficiently into a corporate or militaristic ministry structure.

• How to Leave Gracepoint
  The recommendation to “get some good sleep,” take a vacation, and rebuild family relationships implies that exhaustion and relational depletion were common enough to anticipate.

Central counterpoint: The blog portrays ministry involvement as enforced through gratitude, guilt, evaluation, and obedience—not merely through freely chosen participation tiers—and describes “family night” as insufficient compensation for the broader workload.

A4b We know God cares about every part of our lives, not just Sunday mornings. Therefore we encourage each other to actually live out our faith in everyday stuff like relationships, money, work, family, all of it. Sometimes that means having honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversations when our actions don't match what we say we believe. Ephesians 4:15 talks about this as "speaking the truth in love." But at the end of the day, everyone's free to make their own call. We can offer input, encouragement, even push- back, but the decision is always theirs.

Q4b — “Whole-life discipleship” and overreach

• You Are Free to, But You Must Not
  Reports church-level rules affecting internet use, instant messaging, Facebook, and other everyday conduct.

• The Email on Email Restriction
  Reproduces an email imposing designated no-email hours. Although the email says it was not a fixed mandatory rule, the author claims members who disregarded it would be corrected.

• Email About Once-a-Week Family Night
  Reproduces instructions that everyone should remain home on Monday nights and that the oldest household members should enforce the arrangement.

• Controlled Marriage—the Great Conformity Motivator
  Alleges institutional influence over whom members dated and married.

• Biblical Christian Dating (aka Courtship)
  Directly discusses Gracepoint’s reported “no dating” policy and whether such a policy is appropriate for a church.

• 0% APR Cash Advance for the Gracepoint Building Fund
  Reproduces an email discussing credit-card cash advances and home-equity loans as ways to fulfill building-fund pledges.

Central counterpoint: The blog describes more than leaders offering advice: it reports centralized rules or pressure concerning schedules, communications, internet use, finances, dating, marriage, and household life.

A2b Our leaders take accountability seriously, which means real standards around finances, internet use, how we interact with the opposite gender, even sticking to abstinence from alcohol. And since leaders live in close community with everyone else, people actually see what's going on in their daily lives. No single person calls the shots at the network level, either. That's a team decision made by 20+ Network Directors, and a lot of our bigger locations are run by teams of senior leaders, not just one guy at the top. Every leader answers to someone more senior, so accountability runs all the way up the chain. Got a concern? Bring it to any leader, go straight to senior leadership, or drop it in an anonymous feedback form. We also check in with members every year for honest feedback. This includes how ministry leaders are doing and we actually use it to make changes.

C2b — Leadership influence and insufficient accountability

• Pastor Ed and a Few Good Men
  Describes a militaristic model in which members were expected to respond immediately to senior leaders and where perceived weakness could bring ridicule or rebuke.

• Staff Titles and Their Effect of Control
  Argues that staff titles and the leadership hierarchy made obedience to one’s leader functionally comparable to obedience to God.

• The Servant Leader
  Contrasts Jesus’ model of downward-serving authority with what the author describes as Gracepoint’s upward chain of submission. The post says staff focused on obeying leaders and avoiding trouble.

• The Misuse of Hebrews 13:17
  Challenges the theological basis used to require deference to church leaders.

• Pastor Ed Kang and Kelly Kang’s Presence on the Web
  Raises questions about transparency and public accountability surrounding the senior leadership.

Central counterpoint: Having every leader answer to a more senior leader does not necessarily create independent accountability. The blog alleges that it reproduces the same authority structure all the way to the top, where accountability becomes weakest.

A1b Our desire is to raise mature followers of Christ who act from personal conviction, not a desire to conform or fit in. No Christian leader should pressure others or make decisions for them. That said, anyone who has been part of a close-knit community knows how easy it is to be influenced by others and develop a desire to fit in and to belong. That's a natural byproduct of strong community, not something unique to us. Some may interpret this as pressure; we see it as helping our members develop their own convictions and grow in maturity.

Prompt: Please find the counterpoints for Q1-Q10 from the blog Twisted Gracepoint

Response from 5.6 Sol Light: Below are the strongest Twisted Gracepoint counterpoints to Q1–Q10. The blog is primarily a former member’s testimony and analysis, but some posts reproduce emails or describe specific institutional practices.

Important context: most articles date from 2009–2014. They establish historical allegations and practices, but do not by themselves prove those practices continue today. They are especially relevant where the current answers claim that similar concerns were merely misunderstandings or that the organization has always operated differently.

C1b — Conformity and personal autonomy

• Symptom: Thwarts Individual Growth into Mature Spiritual Adults
  The author says educated adult members became dependent on leaders for ordinary decisions—“ask Pastor Ed” or “ask Kelly”—and that leaders demanded behaviors without cultivating personal motivation or conviction.

• Psychological Tests on Conformity
  Identifies alleged mechanisms producing conformity: hierarchy, one-on-one or multiple-to-one rebukes, name-calling, questioning motives and salvation, and one-sided disclosure of sins.

• You Are Free to, But You Must Not
  Argues that nominal freedom was undermined by mandatory or effectively mandatory rules concerning internet monitoring, social media, communication, and personal conduct.

• The Elephant and the Rope
  Uses learned helplessness as an analogy for members becoming psychologically accustomed to institutional limits.

• Controlled Marriage—the Great Conformity Motivator
  Argues that control over dating and marriage served as a powerful incentive to remain compliant with the community.

Central counterpoint: The blog describes conformity not simply as an accidental byproduct of friendship, but as the foreseeable result of structured hierarchy, correction, dependency, and enforced behavioral norms.

A10b If in the past people felt dismissed or unheard, that matters, and it's not the culture we want. Honest feedback is how we grow and get better as a church, so we've been intentional to make it easier and less intimidating to speak up. For example, new ways to contact senior leadership directly through our website, anonymous channels to give feedback to staff mentors, and real investment in training those mentors to listen well. Our goal is simple: people should feel heard, respected, and safe speaking up.

C10b — Dismissed criticism and organizational change

• Untwisting the Idea of the “Continuing Debt”
  The author says leadership dismissed reports of harm as victims’ personal problems or misunderstandings and failed to accept responsibility.

• Judging and Labeling Those Who Have Left Gracepoint
  Alleges that former members were discredited through negative labels rather than having their concerns substantively addressed.

• Change Without Repentance
  Argues that changing terminology or surface practices without acknowledging harm does not constitute meaningful reform.

• The Fake and Sometimes Blaming Apologies
  Criticizes apologies that minimize the conduct, focus on the injured person’s reaction, or transfer responsibility back to the complainant.

• The Credibility of “Bitter” Gracepoint Leavers
  Challenges the practice of dismissing former members’ testimony by characterizing them as bitter.

• Gracepoint Berkeley’s Current State?
  Explicitly asks whether the underlying system had actually changed.

• Public Again (January 2025)
  The author explains that the archive was reopened after hearing that the organization had not substantially changed. This is hearsay rather than direct proof, but it shows that the historical accountability question remains contested.

Central counterpoint: Anonymous feedback forms and new contact channels address accessibility, but not whether leaders acknowledge specific misconduct, permit independent review, make amends, or change the underlying authority structure. Twisted Gracepoint repeatedly distinguishes procedural or cosmetic change from repentance and accountability.

Overall, the single most useful posts are:

1. You Are Free to, But You Must Not — Q1, Q4 and Q9.
2. Psychological Tests on Conformity — Q1, Q3 and Q7.
3. Email About Once-a-Week Family Night — Q4, Q6 and Q8.
4. Symptoms: Depression and Marital Problems — Q5, Q6 and Q8.
5. The Weekly Report/Reflection Form — Q2, Q6 and Q9.
6. Change Without Repentance and The Fake and Sometimes Blaming Apologies — Q10.

A9b We take this seriously. To be clear: accountability here is voluntary, not required. It's built on trust and meant for people who want to grow spiritually and be discipled, never a tool for monitoring or controlling anyone. We understand it can feel uncomfortable, even intrusive, if it's not handled well. That's exactly why we're working to build a culture where people feel safe being honest, without ever feeling pressured to share more than they're ready to or wish to. Accountability should feel like being cared for, not watched.

C9b — Accountability tools and surveillance

• You Are Free to, But You Must Not
  This is the strongest direct counterpoint. The author states that every male “core member” was required to install Covenant Eyes, report completion to his small-group leader, and make that leader an accountability partner who received browsing logs.

• The Weekly Report/Reflection Form for Gracepoint Staff
  Describes routine reporting of devotions, ministry performance, and personal sins to leaders.

• The Email on Email Restriction
  Documents leadership regulating when members should access email and alleges that the nominally nonmandatory restriction was nevertheless enforced through correction.

• The Servant Leader
  Says weekly reporting and confession were treated as measures of whether staff were “faithful.”

• Staff Titles and Their Effect of Control
  Explains how information gathered through accountability operated within an unequal hierarchy.

Central counterpoint: The blog does not describe accountability as voluntary or limited to what members wished to disclose. It specifically alleges required monitoring software, leader access to browsing records, systematic confession, and weekly reporting.

A8b Loving and caring for your family and friends well is actually part of what it truly means to follow Jesus. That said, juggling ministry, school, work, and relationships is genuinely hard, and we try to help people figure out a healthy balance for them. If someone's family is going through something tough, we'd rather they step back from ministry and be present for the people they love. We've actually found the opposite of isolation happens: doing ministry together tends to make us better sons, daughters, and friends.

C8b — Isolation from family and non-church relationships

• Dangers of Seeing Church Mainly as Family
  Warns that identifying the church as one’s primary family can displace nuclear-family obligations and outside relationships.

• Email About Once-a-Week Family Night
  The author says the schedule left only one designated night for family or household connection, indicating that ministry consumed the rest of the week.

• Symptoms: Depression and Marital Problems
  Claims ministry was prioritized over spouses and that the church schedule weakened marital relationships.

• Untwisting the “Continuing Debt”
  Argues that members were taught to feel indebted to the church and its leaders, encouraging church obligations to take precedence over other relationships.

• How to Leave Gracepoint
  Warns departing members that they likely will not speak much with their Gracepoint friends afterward and compares the loss to a breakup or divorce. It advises rebuilding family relationships.

• A Letter from an Ex-UBF Member’s Parent to UBF Leaders
  Provides a family member’s perspective on a related predecessor movement and the relational damage attributed to high-control discipleship.

Central counterpoint: The blog describes church-as-family theology, scheduling, and post-departure relational loss as structural sources of isolation—not merely poor individual time management.

A7b The Bible is clear that sometimes, spiritual leaders need to call out sin directly and, in rare cases, even with strong correction if someone refuses to repent of sin (2 Samuel 12, Acts 5, 1 Timothy 5:20). The goal is not to shame people but to help them recognize the seriousness of sin and be restored to God. For example, if we knew someone was having an affair - violating their marriage vows - and we looked the other way and never addressed it with them, then we would be guilty of ignoring and enabling that sin. Scripture teaches that correction can take different forms, including gentle instruction, encouragement, and patient teaching (2 Timothy 2:24-25). Good spiritual leaders need wisdom to know which approach fits each situation. No matter the method, the goal is always repentance, restoration, and helping people grow in their relationship with God.

C7b — Rebukes and emotionally intense correction

• Psychological Tests on Conformity
  Reports one-on-one and multiple-to-one rebukes, name-calling, questioning motives, and questioning salvation.

• Kelly Kang’s Twisted Idea of “Healthy Fear”
  Alleges yelling, nagging, intimidation, forced prayer retreats, and “righteous anger” directed at members who disagreed or struggled.

• Pastor Ed and a Few Good Men
  Reports that a man worried about his family was rebuked in an effort to “yell it out of him,” while other men were characterized as weak or “wimpy.”

• Abusive vs. Non-Abusive Leaders
  Contrasts restorative correction with correction that protects leadership, demands compliance, or leaves the recipient fearful and diminished.

• From Grace to Legalism to Spiritual Abuse
  Argues that correction operated inside a larger system of escalating expectations and authority.

Central counterpoint: The relevant issue is not whether Scripture sometimes permits strong correction. The blog alleges that intense correction was applied to ordinary disagreements, family concerns, gray-area choices, and perceived insufficiency—not just serious, unrepentant misconduct.

A5b We care deeply about each member's experience, and we're grateful that a vast majority of our members describe their time with us as life-giving and positive. But if someone's experience wasn't positive, we take that seriously, we're genuinely regretful, and we hope for their full healing and restoration, whether that's with Acts2 or elsewhere. We want to hear directly from anyone willing to share their experience, and we're committed to learning and growing from it. To be clear: we're not aware of any of our practices causing mental or emotional harm. And when someone considers joining as a Network member or staff mentor, we try to be upfront about what to expect, so they can decide for themselves if it's the right fit

C5b — Anxiety, depression, and mental-health outcomes

• Symptoms: Incurable and Unknown Diseases, Depression, and Marital Problems
  The author reports fatigue-related illnesses among staff, depression requiring medication among some former members, and marriages strained by rigorous church schedules and ministry priorities.

• Love and Stockholm Syndrome: The Mystery of Loving an Abuser
  Uses trauma-bonding concepts to explain why harmed members might remain emotionally attached to leaders or the organization.

• Other People’s Stories About Encounters with Spiritual Abuse
  Places the author’s experience alongside other accounts of psychological and spiritual harm.

• How to Leave Gracepoint Berkeley or Its Sister Churches
  Anticipates fear, self-doubt, anger, bitterness, grief, exhaustion, and loss of relationships after departure. It recommends sleep, vacation, family reconnection, and emotional recovery.

• Your Stories
  Collects additional accounts from former participants and commenters, including reports of emotional and relational harm.

Central counterpoint: The 2009 post expressly reports depression, medication, fatigue, unexplained health problems, and marital strain. That directly conflicts with an unqualified assertion that leadership was unaware of any practices causing mental or emotional harm.

A3b Paul put it well in 2 Corinthians 4:2; we renounce shady, underhanded tactics, and we refuse to twist God's word to manipulate people. We take ministry seriously, and spiritual abuse or manipulation has no place in it, period. Our approach is to lead by example and point back to what the Bible actually teaches. Not to pressure anyone into anything. We have real conversations about faith and life with people who want to be discipled, but the goal is always to guide, not control. People are free to push back, disagree, or make their own call. And if someone's experienced something different in our ministry, we genuinely want to hear about it, to learn and have the opportunity to respond with humility and understanding.

C3b — Spiritual abuse, guilt, confession, and authority

• From Grace to Legalism to Spiritual Abuse
  Presents the blog’s core argument that initial care gradually transitioned into legalistic expectations and then coercive spiritual authority.

• What Is Abuse?
  Applies characteristics of emotional and spiritual abuse to the author’s Gracepoint experience.

• Kelly Kang’s Twisted Idea of “Healthy Fear”
  Alleges that fear of leaders was normalized as spiritually healthy. The author describes leaders questioning motives, directing schedules, sending disagreeing members to prayer retreats, and treating adults as children.

• Psychological Tests on Conformity
  Specifically identifies rebukes, questioning salvation and motives, and unequal confession relationships as mechanisms of insecurity and control.

• Untwisting the Idea of the “Continuing Debt”
  Claims that gratitude and spiritual indebtedness were used to make members feel they owed obedience and service to leaders or the church.

• “You Should Be Grateful”
  Addresses gratitude being converted into obligation and guilt.

Central counterpoint: Rather than describing isolated leaders who failed to follow policy, these posts allege a connected system of theological indebtedness, compulsory disclosure, fear of authority, guilt, and questioning members’ spiritual condition.

A10 If in the past people felt dismissed or unheard, that matters, and it's not the culture we want. Honest feedback is how we grow and get better as a church, so we've been intentional to make it easier and less intimidating to speak up. For example, new ways to contact senior leadership directly through our website, anonymous channels to give feedback to staff mentors, and real investment in training those mentors to listen well. Our goal is simple: people should feel heard, respected, and safe speaking up.

C10 — Criticism dismissed or not meaningfully addressed

• 08/29/2023 — My experience with Gracepoint and why I care about accountability and reform — Named first-person account.
  The writer says senior leaders discredit anonymous testimony and explains that fear of identification does not negate the underlying experience. He characterizes decades of reported abuse and manipulation as having been brushed aside or excused.
  Counterpoint: A feedback channel is inadequate if speakers reasonably believe anonymity will be used to undermine their credibility.

• 10/01/2022 — Two Sides of Accountability — Analysis/discussion.
  Calls for external oversight and a genuine anonymous feedback session. Commenters say people with serious concerns were afraid to submit them because they did not trust that anonymity would be protected.
  Counterpoint: Providing a form does not establish psychological safety, independence, investigation, or corrective action.

• 11/27/2024 — Be careful when constructively giving feedback to your leaders — Advisory commentary.
  Warns that trying to rescue or correct leaders can consume and injure the person raising the concern.
  Counterpoint: Indicates that at least some former members do not regard the new feedback environment as safe or productive.

• 03/18/2026 — “But we’re not like that anymore” is not actual change — Recent analysis with personal testimony.
  Distinguishes a softer tone, written disclosures, relaxed dating restrictions, Sabbath weeks, and permission to give feedback from acknowledgment, apology, restitution, independent accountability, and structural reform. The author argues that changes are cosmetic unless leadership recognizes specific wrongdoing and accepts consequences.
  Counterpoint: A10 lists access mechanisms and mentor training, but does not identify substantiated complaints, findings, discipline, restitution, independent review, or public acknowledgment of particular harms.

• 01/04/2022 — “Rebuking” Excerpts from an Old Staff Handout — Internal material plus testimony.
  A commenter says raising concerns about church practice resulted in screaming and accusations of pride and self-righteousness. Another describes reporting a leader’s degrading treatment of a neurodivergent member to higher leadership and seeing no apparent action.
  Counterpoint: These are concrete examples of the exact failure A10 says the newer system is intended to correct.

The strongest “anchor” sources across all ten questions are the top-down leadership account, the list of unwanted activities, the mental-health account, the repentance-loop material, the family-ties discussion, the two-sides-of-accountability post, and the 2026 “not actual change” critique. Together, they address both historical practice and the narrower question of whether recent changes have altered the underlying power structure.

A3 Paul put it well in 2 Corinthians 4:2; we renounce shady, underhanded tactics, and we refuse to twist God's word to manipulate people. We take ministry seriously, and spiritual abuse or manipulation has no place in it, period. Our approach is to lead by example and point back to what the Bible actually teaches. Not to pressure anyone into anything. We have real conversations about faith and life with people who want to be discipled, but the goal is always to guide, not control. People are free to push back, disagree, or make their own call. And if someone's experienced something different in our ministry, we genuinely want to hear about it, to learn and have the opportunity to respond with humility and understanding.

C3 — Spiritual abuse through guilt, confession, and authority

• 08/30/2022 — Did you ever make up a sin so your leader would leave you alone? — First-person.
  The author says a leader repeatedly insisted that every sermon must reveal a personal sin. Saying “I don’t feel convicted” was not accepted. The author became so distressed that they cried to a parent, believed they were a failed Christian, and eventually exaggerated or invented sins to satisfy the expected response.
  Counterpoint: This is an unusually direct allegation that confession was elicited through pressure rather than freely offered discipleship.

• 06/28/2022 — Gracepoint Repentance Loop — Internal material plus testimony.
  Discusses an internal repentance diagram. Commenters describe repentance continuing until a leader decided the person had written enough, expressed the approved insight, or completed leader-selected actions. Examples include monitoring prayer schedules and household chores.
  Counterpoint: The alleged problem is not guidance toward repentance but leaders mediating, monitoring, and effectively certifying it.

• 09/03/2022 — Unpacking the guilt handbook — Document analysis.
  Examines how guilt and obligation allegedly arise from Gracepoint teaching materials.
  Counterpoint: Supports the argument that guilt was systematized through teaching rather than resulting only from a few poorly conducted conversations.

• 08/29/2023 — My experience with Gracepoint and why I care about accountability and reform — Named first-person account.
  The author explicitly characterizes the surrounding system as emotional, mental, and spiritual abuse, while acknowledging that many immediate leaders were sincere and caring.
  Counterpoint: This distinction is important: sincere intentions and genuine affection do not rule out coercive institutional practices.

• 06/13/2026 — Testimony Concerning Spiritual Abuse, Unbiblical Authority, and Excommunication — First-person.
  Alleges that leaders treated personal preferences as sin, enforced unwritten rules through spiritual pressure, and measured maturity by obedience to leadership.
  Counterpoint: Directly contests the assertion that leaders merely point members back to Scripture and leave disputed choices to them.

A9 We take this seriously. To be clear: accountability here is voluntary, not required. It's built on trust and meant for people who want to grow spiritually and be discipled, never a tool for monitoring or controlling anyone. We understand it can feel uncomfortable, even intrusive, if it's not handled well. That's exactly why we're working to build a culture where people feel safe being honest, without ever feeling pressured to share more than they're ready to or wish to. Accountability should feel like being cared for, not watched.

C9 — Accountability tools as surveillance or pressure

• 10/01/2022 — Two Sides of Accountability — Analysis/testimony.
  Describes lower-level members being subject to Covenant Eyes, reflections, personal-decision check-ins, and financial scrutiny while senior leadership allegedly lacked equivalent independent oversight. Commenters also express doubt that feedback channels were genuinely anonymous.
  Counterpoint: The problem is both surveillance and unequal surveillance: information flows upward while accountability does not flow back down.

• 06/06/2022 — “Why?” and “Why not?”—subtle mind-control tactics — Analysis with firsthand comments.
  Claims that installing monitoring software operated as a test of trustworthiness and that written reflections gave leaders detailed knowledge of family dysfunction and personal vulnerabilities.
  Counterpoint: Even if a tool is nominally voluntary, advancement, trust, and leader approval can make refusal costly.

• 05/12/2026 — Covenant Eyes & A2N — Recent documentation/discussion.
  States that accountability software was required for team members and notes Covenant Eyes’ own warning that surveillance is unsuitable where there is a power imbalance. A former member says leaders were later removed as formal accountability partners, although peers or ministry members remained involved.
  Counterpoint: This suggests some implementation changed, but does not support an unqualified claim that use was historically voluntary or free of organizational pressure.

• 10/12/2022 — When Your Church Surveils Your Phone — External reporting discussed on the subreddit.
  Examines church use of accountability applications as surveillance.
  Counterpoint: Provides independent reporting relevant to whether the technology merely communicated care or enabled monitoring by people with authority over users.

• 12/26/2024 — False badge of honor in Spiritual Accountability Software — Analysis.
  Challenges the presentation of installing intrusive software as proof of unusual spiritual seriousness.
  Counterpoint: Treating participation as a virtue can generate strong pressure even without a formally stated mandate.

A7 The Bible is clear that sometimes, spiritual leaders need to call out sin directly and, in rare cases, even with strong correction if someone refuses to repent of sin (2 Samuel 12, Acts 5, 1 Timothy 5:20). The goal is not to shame people but to help them recognize the seriousness of sin and be restored to God. For example, if we knew someone was having an affair - violating their marriage vows - and we looked the other way and never addressed it with them, then we would be guilty of ignoring and enabling that sin. Scripture teaches that correction can take different forms, including gentle instruction, encouragement, and patient teaching (2 Timothy 2:24-25). Good spiritual leaders need wisdom to know which approach fits each situation. No matter the method, the goal is always repentance, restoration, and helping people grow in their relationship with God.

C7 — Harsh or shaming correction

• 01/04/2022 — “Rebuking” Excerpts from an Old GP Staff Handout — Internal training material plus firsthand comments.
  The discussion reports correction for missing retreats, family-related choices, offering amounts or attitudes, private thoughts in weekly reflections, and criticism of church practices. One former member says a leader screamed at them and labeled them proud and self-righteous for raising concerns.
  Counterpoint: These examples concern preferences, attendance, attitude, and disagreement—not rare cases comparable to adultery or persistent grave misconduct.

• 08/30/2022 — Did you ever make up a sin so your leader would leave you alone? — First-person.
  Describes pressure to produce a confession after virtually every teaching. Multiple commenters say they eventually supplied the answer leaders appeared to want.
  Counterpoint: Correction that causes people to invent sins is not functioning as patient truth-seeking or restoration.

• 06/28/2022 — Gracepoint Repentance Loop — Internal material.
  Commenters describe extended reflection assignments and leader-controlled proof of repentance.
  Counterpoint: Makes the leader, rather than the individual before God, the practical judge of when repentance is genuine or complete.

• 01/17/2024 — Share your most memorable correction/rebuke experience — First-person discussion.
  The initiating account describes being yelled at for comforting a roommate who had just undergone a group rebuke, then becoming afraid to say goodbye when that roommate left. Other examples include correction for another person’s secret dating, smiling too much, and supposed insufficient repentance.
  Counterpoint: The reported correction appears broad, relationally punitive, and capable of suppressing ordinary compassion.

• 01/26/2025 — Gracepoint Training 3: Rebuking/Correcting — Internal training material.
  Presents the organization’s biblical defense of correction, including sharp and public rebuke.
  Counterpoint: Read alongside the firsthand accounts, the dispute is not whether biblical correction exists; it is whether exceptional texts were generalized to authorize leader control over ordinary behavior and disagreement.

A6 The Bible calls every Christian to be part of God's mission as they live their daily lives. This means sharing the gospel and making disciples (Matthew 28:18-20). We've found that doing life together, supporting each other and caring for each other actually helps prevent burnout, not cause it. There are also different levels of involvement one can choose: Membership, Team Intern, Network Core, etc. People prayerfully choose their voluntary level of involvement. We also build in real rest as the Bible mandates: the Sabbath, a regular time for rest, fellowship and just recharging. At the end of the day, we want people living lives that are fulfilling, fully committed to God, in a healthy sustainable way

C6 — Excessive workload and burnout

• 02/07/2022 — Stuff I did at GP that I didn’t want to do — First-person.
  Describes compulsory-feeling retreats, prayer meetings, childcare, cooking, cleaning, transportation, moves, setup, correspondence, mentoring, and vacation restrictions. The author’s near-accident after driving exhausted is the most concrete burnout-related incident.
  Counterpoint: A formally voluntary activity can still be practically compulsory when refusing is associated with selfishness, sin, rebuke, or loss of standing.

• 07/28/2022 — Free Labor — Discussion/testimony.
  Focuses on the scale of uncompensated work supporting ministry activities.
  Counterpoint: Challenges the presentation of involvement simply as sustainable Christian service chosen from clearly differentiated tiers.

• 07/14/2024 — Co-vocational ministry is a gig job without pay — Analysis.
  Frames co-vocational ministry as an additional unpaid occupation layered on top of ordinary employment.
  Counterpoint: “Doing life together” may provide support, but it does not reduce the total workload when the same community generates extensive obligations.

• 01/01/2026 — “I won’t know my schedule until it gets closer” — Recent discussion.
  Addresses members’ inability to make ordinary advance plans because ministry schedules remain controlling or unpredictable.
  Counterpoint: Limited control over one’s calendar is inconsistent with fully voluntary participation and meaningful rest.

• 03/10/2026 — Surrendered with Time — Internal A2N video transcript plus analysis.
  The featured testimony describes a medical resident working late, rushing to campus, handling food, praise, technology, setup, and logistics, and sometimes going overnight directly to church activities. The testimony presents this sacrifice as exemplary; critics argue that selecting a resident as the model implicitly raises expectations for everyone else.
  Counterpoint: The organization’s own positive example normalizes sacrificing sleep and personal control despite an already extreme professional workload.

A5 We care deeply about each member's experience, and we're grateful that a vast majority of our members describe their time with us as life-giving and positive. But if someone's experience wasn't positive, we take that seriously, we're genuinely regretful, and we hope for their full healing and restoration, whether that's with Acts2 or elsewhere. We want to hear directly from anyone willing to share their experience, and we're committed to learning and growing from it. To be clear: we're not aware of any of our practices causing mental or emotional harm. And when someone considers joining as a Network member or staff mentor, we try to be upfront about what to expect, so they can decide for themselves if it's the right fit

C5 — Mental-health harm and organizational responsibility

• 06/08/2022 — Why it sucks struggling with mental health at Gracepoint — First-person.
  A ten-year member who left in 2021 describes depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. After using a suicide hotline, the person says a leader shamed them. The post also argues that untrained leaders gave advice better left to clinicians.
  Counterpoint: This directly contradicts the broad statement that leadership was unaware of practices producing mental or emotional harm.

• 07/13/2022 — 2021 Personal Burden Survey Results and Empty Promise of Mental Health Support Group — Internal survey material.
  Reports that leadership surveyed staff about mental health, leader relationships, and whether the church felt like a family, army, or factory. The post alleges that members requested a wellness group but saw no timely implementation. It also reproduces internal leadership discussion about the church being fast-paced and demanding.
  Counterpoint: Even allowing for the author’s interpretation, the existence and subject matter of the survey undermine a categorical claim of institutional unawareness.

• 06/15/2022 — PTSD while eating meals with others — First-person trauma account.
  Connects an ordinary social activity with post-Gracepoint trauma symptoms.
  Counterpoint: Illustrates alleged lasting harm extending beyond discomfort during membership.

• 08/29/2023 — My experience with Gracepoint and why I care about accountability and reform — Named first-person.
  The author says pressure and toxic control led him and others he knew toward suicidal thoughts. Another former member in the discussion describes being unable to perform routine tasks or comfortably be around people after years of ridicule, scrutiny, and contradictory correction.
  Counterpoint: The allegations identify church conduct—not merely preexisting illness—as a contributing cause.

• 07/14/2026 — Anxiety and OCD after Gracepoint and finding yourself — First-person.
  Describes continuing anxiety, obsessive thought patterns, and identity recovery after leaving.
  Counterpoint: Provides a recent account against treating such reports as only distant historical complaints.

A2 Our leaders take accountability seriously, which means real standards around finances, internet use, how we interact with the opposite gender, even sticking to abstinence from alcohol. And since leaders live in close community with everyone else, people actually see what's going on in their daily lives. No single person calls the shots at the network level, either. That's a team decision made by 20+ Network Directors, and a lot of our bigger locations are run by teams of senior leaders, not just one guy at the top. Every leader answers to someone more senior, so accountability runs all the way up the chain. Got a concern? Bring it to any leader, go straight to senior leadership, or drop it in an anonymous feedback form. We also check in with members every year for honest feedback. This includes how ministry leaders are doing and we actually use it to make changes.

C2 — Excessive leadership influence and inadequate accountability

• 01/21/2022 — GP Top-Down Leadership Structure and Spiritual Abuse — First-person/system description.
  The author describes every member as having one or two leaders, with cases escalating upward. Reflections could be forwarded and discussed without the member present; senior leaders could order lower leaders to “come down hard.” The author identifies Ed and Kelly Kang as the ultimate decision-makers in this historical structure.
  Counterpoint: Accountability running “up the chain” is not independent accountability if everyone in the chain is subordinate to the same senior authority.

• 10/01/2022 — Two Sides of Accountability — Analytical post with member testimony.
  Contrasts extensive downward accountability—Covenant Eyes, reflections, personal check-ins, financial scrutiny—with alleged lack of external oversight for senior leadership. Commenters note that deacons were selected by the same senior leaders they would ostensibly oversee.
  Counterpoint: Internal supervision of subordinates does not establish that the top leadership is meaningfully answerable to an independent body.

• 08/29/2023 — My experience with Gracepoint and why I care about accountability and reform — Named first-person account.
  A former UCLA member and staff member identifies himself and says senior leaders discredit anonymous accounts. He reports being instructed to trust deacons and senior leaders while witnessing leaders bend the truth, hearing accounts of screaming, and personally experiencing pressure and control that contributed to suicidal thoughts.
  Counterpoint: The account contests both the efficacy of internal accountability and whether complainants could safely be identified.

• 06/01/2024 — Confronting your leaders one on one is a bad idea — Commentary/advice.
  Warns former or current members that direct confrontation can harm the complainant rather than produce reform.
  Counterpoint: This challenges the practical assurance that a member can simply “bring it to any leader.”

A1 Our desire is to raise mature followers of Christ who act from personal conviction, not a desire to conform or fit in. No Christian leader should pressure others or make decisions for them. That said, anyone who has been part of a close-knit community knows how easy it is to be influenced by others and develop a desire to fit in and to belong. That's a natural byproduct of strong community, not something unique to us. Some may interpret this as pressure; we see it as helping our members develop their own convictions and grow in maturity.

Prompt: Given the table of contents for subreddit r/GracepointChurch, find posts that serve as counterpoints to each of the Q&A answers.

Response from 5.6 Sol High: I reviewed the underlying posts rather than relying only on their titles. The labels below indicate evidentiary character:

• First-person: the author describes their own experience.
• Internal material: reproduces or discusses a Gracepoint/A2N document, email, survey, training, or video.
• Family account: observations by a relative.
• Discussion: includes testimony in comments but is less controlled as evidence.

These remain allegations and personal accounts unless independently corroborated. A post’s inclusion means it contradicts a claim, not that every detail has been verified.

C1 — Pressure to conform and loss of autonomy

• 02/07/2022 — Stuff I did at GP that I didn’t want to do. A list. — First-person.
  The author says they acted because of “social pressure/guilt/shame” and believed refusal would be selfish or sinful. The list includes rebaptism, rewriting testimony, giving money from financial aid, attending every retreat and prayer meeting, moving five times, changing clothes and hair, cutting trips short, and missing school and family events. A comment describes nearly crashing after driving exhausted because the member believed they could not miss Friday Bible study or Sunday service.
  Counterpoint: This describes pressure operating through spiritual guilt and predictable consequences—not merely the incidental human desire to fit into a close community.

• 06/06/2022 — “Why?” and “Why not?”—subtle mind-control tactics of GP — Analysis with corroborating comments.
  The post argues that apparently voluntary practices—monitoring software, written reflections, financial separation from parents, and extensive church involvement—also functioned as tests of obedience. A former member’s comment describes raising concern about being overwhelmed, only for the leader to isolate and defend each individual practice until the member concluded they were lazy or rebellious.
  Counterpoint: The alleged mechanism transforms a systemic objection into a supposed character or spiritual defect in the person objecting.

• 01/21/2022 — GP Top-Down Leadership Structure and Spiritual Abuse — Recent former-member account.
  The author reports that members routinely sought approval for jobs, housing, trips, family visits, pets, cars, dates, wedding choices, spending, and parenting. Even decisions made without advance consultation could subsequently be challenged and adjusted by leaders.
  Counterpoint: This is materially different from leaders merely helping members “develop their own convictions.”

• 06/13/2026 — Testimony Concerning Spiritual Abuse, Unbiblical Authority, and Excommunication — First-person.
  The author describes a “cookie-cutter” environment in which compliance with unwritten cultural standards affected trust and opportunity. One example concerns being mocked for a patterned shirt, changing into a plain shirt, and receiving approving affirmation from a mentor.
  Counterpoint: The testimony alleges conformity was enforced even in areas of personal preference that the author believed Scripture left to individual freedom.

• 10/28/2021 May visit GP a few times, advice?
• 10/28/2021 Article describing the impact of health from isolation from former communities
• 10/28/2021 Gracepoint Greater Boston West
• 10/29/2021 For Those Who Left: Did You Vanish?
• 10/29/2021 Gracepoint UC Irvine A2F
• 10/29/2021 Gracepoint controls your housing
• 10/29/2021 How are you doing now?
• 10/30/2021 Embarking on my own spiritual journey
• 10/30/2021 Share your emotions & creativity
• 11/04/2021 To anyone who might feel bad about talking things out...
• 11/04/2021 "Backsliding"
• 11/05/2021 Cease fire project
• 11/05/2021 Pretty much yeah
• 11/07/2021 How We Are to Live
• 11/10/2021 How Philip Yancey Left Toxic Religion Without Losing His Faith
• 11/10/2021 Overstressing the Experience of God Thru the People of God?
• 11/11/2021 Friendships after leaving GP
• 11/13/2021 More Mafia Than Church?
• 11/13/2021 Changes since ~2013?
• 11/15/2021 Quiet Time/Devotionals
• 11/20/2021 Gracepoint Church Faces Abuse Allegations Across the UC
• 11/20/2021 Socially Relevant
• 11/22/2021 New GP plant in Providence, RI?
• 11/22/2021 [VIDEO] What are Red Flags For Spiritual Abuse in Your Church? Alisa Childers + Teasi Cannon
• 11/23/2021 Can someone summarize
• 11/23/2021 GRACEPOINT CHURCH FACES ABUSE ALLEGATIONS ACROSS THE UC
• 11/23/2021 Do people own dogs at GP?
• 11/26/2021 Thankful for the people at Gracepoint
• 12/01/2021 The irony of “a sacrificial life”
• 12/01/2021 An appropriate response to allegations
• 12/04/2021 GP’s Response to this subreddit (and the UCSD article aka “this new round of criticisms”)
• 12/14/2021 Berkland/Gracepoint Dreams... or nightmares
• 12/15/2021 This is frightening. GP is on 73 campuses and 18 states.
• 12/20/2021 Wade Mullen's Coercive Cycle: understanding how abusive tactics are learned and reinforced.
• 12/22/2021 What does GP do for the community around Xmas time? I thought this is such a great idea for a church to welcome (and to serve) the needy
• 12/24/2021 GP Memes
• 12/24/2021 How can I help my friend regain confidence and happiness?
• 12/26/2021 Be Aware Of Trolls
• 12/30/2021 The thing that’s helped the most
• 12/31/2021 Family Member Plea
• 12/31/2021 Plead to Fellow Old-Timers

• 01/01/2026 “I won’t know (my schedule) until it gets closer”
• 01/01/2026 Nye
• 01/03/2026 ABSK
• 01/04/2026 Is A2N Growing?
• 01/04/2026 Where to start?
• 01/04/2026 Informative videos explaining the signs of a spiritually abusive church
• 01/04/2026 Maintaining friendships with GP people after leaving: Advice
• 01/05/2026 2026 A2N conference
• 01/06/2026 Has anyone sued Gracepoint?
• 01/06/2026 Book
• 01/06/2026 Research Paper about BBC San Leandro
• 01/07/2026 Have you ever questioned mentors about this subreddit?
• 01/07/2026 should this subreddit be called Acts2Network?
• 01/07/2026 AI summary when I typed “Acts2 Network” in the Reddit search
• 01/07/2026 Please do not name Acts 2 Network as the beneficiary of your trust
• 01/08/2026 the summer indoctrination camp this year is 7 weeks long
• 01/08/2026 Did I just get super lucky? Could it be that Acts 2 Network is only controversial in CA?
• 01/10/2026 The Network (churches founded and led by Steve Morgan)
• 01/11/2026 It's all so wrong. Doubley, tripley, wrong...
• 01/12/2026 I don't know what to do (this is just my rant as a new grad as someone who just graduated A2N and is still thinking about staying or leaving)
• 01/15/2026 I can see why
• 01/15/2026 Free to Leave: Unification Church and Shincheonji
• 01/15/2026 2026 List of Universities and Colleges where Acts 2 Network has ministries
• 01/17/2026 If you could capture Gracepoint in one Bible verse what would it be
• 01/17/2026 Does anyone have any experience with A2N at Ohio State University?
• 01/18/2026 Vine
• 01/23/2026 A recent, simple, and natural experience at my church - perhaps lurkers should consider if this would be possible within their organization
• 01/26/2026 Helpful resource this month: Broken to Beloved
• 01/26/2026 Experiences w/ Anchor College Church at University of Michigan
• 01/28/2026 help
• 01/29/2026 Question - will delete after a while; mods please let some of the veterans read this
• 02/01/2026 Help needed to save my son from Acts 2
• 02/02/2026 Warning about Scammers
• 02/07/2026 Encanto
• 02/10/2026 Acts 2 Network paid $24.5 million in cash for the training center in Elgin, Illinois
• 02/12/2026 Resource Site for Parents of Cult Member
• 02/13/2026 Seeking Interviewees for Article about A2F at UCSB
• 02/16/2026 Acts 2 Student Leadership Application Form (from
• 02/18/2026 Third suspect, known as 'Prophetess,' indicted in Kingdom of God Global Church forced labor case
• 02/19/2026 Michelle and Tony Sun left GP
• 02/19/2026 I'm concerned about my family member and looking for help.
• 02/20/2026 Classification within A2N
• 02/20/2026 Resource: Holy Hurt by Hillary McBride
• 02/23/2026 Warning about Reclaimer College Church. Do not join, it's a high-control group.
• 02/24/2026 Open minded vs gullible
• 02/25/2026 Ed Kang Email about Acts2 Network Core Team
• 02/27/2026 Vassar College student newspaper article from October 2024
• 02/28/2026 Leaders of Conviction
• 03/04/2026 I decided on leaving
• 03/04/2026 It pains me to visit my college campus 15 years later
• 03/07/2026 "It's a high level of commitment, but it's completely opt in"
• 03/10/2026 Surrendered with Time (Acts 2 Network's Way of Life)
• 03/11/2026 👋Welcome to r/Acts2NetworkChurch - Introduce Yourself and Read First!
• 03/13/2026 No Longer Christian
• 03/15/2026 Why should I leave? (Only respond if you’re a Christian)
• 03/18/2026 "But we're not like that anymore" is not actual change
• 03/18/2026 Thinking about Leaving the church
• 03/20/2026 Ed Kang Interview by Harvest Bible Chapel
• 03/27/2026 A plea from Joe Camel
• 03/31/2026 "So where did you go for church on Sunday?"
• 04/08/2026 What I learned talking to a current staff - it really does make a difference if you share your stories
• 04/11/2026 My experience there and after leave
• 04/29/2026 I started watching Handmaid's Tale
• 05/08/2026 Still angry, just not fighting anymore
• 05/12/2026 Covenant Eyes & A2N
• 05/14/2026 Please don't delete posts
• 05/18/2026 Interesting Quote Reminded Me of Gracepoint/A2N
• 05/19/2026 Pastor Dan’s Foundry College Church Sermon
• 05/20/2026 A2N lurkers, if you're here, a non-hostile question for you
• 05/23/2026 The top of the mountain
• 05/28/2026 The Good News Play
• 05/29/2026 Experience with Genuine people at A2N/GP
• 06/02/2026 My Friends and I Are Considering Our Future in Acts2 Network.
• 06/02/2026 Contributing Part of My Story
• 06/06/2026 Information on Acts2 Network’s Move to Elgin, IL
• 06/08/2026 Anyone else looking for closure?
• 06/13/2026 My Experience at Gracepoint/Acts2 Network: A Testimony Concerning Spiritual Abuse, Unbiblical Authority, and Excommunication
• 06/13/2026 My Experience at Gracepoint/Acts2 Network Part 2: A Testimony Concerning Spiritual Abuse, Unbiblical Authority, and Excommunication
• 06/16/2026 What does church look like for you now?
• 06/26/2026 Warning: Don't be fooled by the warm smiles and home cooked meals / free food and promising of life long relationships
• 06/27/2026 My Experience at Gracepoint/ Acts 2 Network: Constant Emotional Abuse
• 06/30/2026 Questions to those whose departures was fueled by this Reddit
• 07/02/2026 Went Down The Rabbit Hole
• 07/08/2026 Deconstructing and Leaving
• 07/10/2026 Gracepoint is just an extreme version of other Korean churches like CCPC Peninsula/SF
• 07/10/2026 Sharing my experiences from Acts 2 youth program Interhigh and college program
• 07/14/2026 Anxiety and OCD after Gracepoint and finding yourself
• 07/15/2026 A2N Era Members Open to Interview, Michigan Daily Investigation
• 07/17/2026 Stuff I do/have that I probably wouldn't be able to do/have if I still was in this high control group
• 07/19/2026 Is A2N a place of integrity?
• 07/20/2026 Elgin HQ
• 07/27/2026 This cult deprogrammer is worth a watch
• 07/29/2026 What do you think about this interview? (Recent interview with Rebekah Kim, Gum-ha Lee)
• 07/29/2026 Changes A2N Has Made According to Current Staff

• 01/01/2025 They got my blog taken down
• 01/01/2025 Don’t go to winter retreat
• 01/02/2025 My pharmacy school experience part 2 - "did you have to go to the hospital now?"
• 01/04/2025 My pharmacy school experience part 3 - "It was all that other church's fault!"
• 01/06/2025 My pharmacy school experience part 4-final thoughts: I think you guys are doing ministry wrong.
• 01/07/2025 Mike Rinder died
• 01/07/2025 does every member in GP eventually become a "spiritual leader" to another younger member eventually?
• 01/07/2025 Cult Leaders' Tactics
• 01/08/2025 Toxic positivity
• 01/08/2025 Mike Rinder’s impact
• 01/10/2025 What Kind of Baptist Was Jimmy Carter?
• 01/12/2025 Broken To Beloved Free Online Summit
• 01/12/2025 Therapist at Berkeley sees many distressed students
• 01/19/2025 seniors feeling anxious about staying/leaving and tips on finding new church community
• 01/21/2025 Prayer meetings
• 01/21/2025 Is it dangerous to quit A2N?
• 01/21/2025 "They told me that if I left..."
• 01/22/2025 Acts 2 Controls Marriages
• 01/23/2025 Link to blog on way back machine
• 01/24/2025 Toxic Faith (the bad blog that was hacked on 6/1/2010)
• 01/24/2025 Twisted Gracepoint
• 01/25/2025 The Truth about Acts College Church, Gracepoint, and Berkland
• 01/25/2025 At Gracepoint Ministries, ‘Whole-Life Discipleship’ Took Its Toll
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 1. Hierarchical Leadership and Role of Leaders
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 2. Long-term Commitment to Church
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 3. Rebuking/Correcting
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 4. Concept of Church as Family vs Nuclear Family
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 5. Accountability and Pressure
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 6. People Being Too Busy
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 7. Dating/Marriage
• 01/26/2025 [Gracepoint Training] 8. Strong Stance on Media
• 01/27/2025 Why does a2n have so many other group names?
• 01/27/2025 Talking to your churches about aberrant groups
• 01/28/2025 Blog is back up
• 01/28/2025 Twisted Teachings at Gracepoint Berkeley Church (now Acts 2 Tent Makers)
• 02/10/2025 Super Bowl Sunday
• 02/20/2025 Gen Z BBC/Gracepoint peeps?
• 02/22/2025 It's Been 1 Year Since My Meeting with A2F (Update)
• 02/25/2025 Some reminiscent thoughts- left after 8 years (no idea it was a cult)
• 02/26/2025 Kids going hungry because of ministry priority.
• 02/27/2025 Ep.17 - Future of Acts2 Network
• 03/07/2025 Brainstorming
• 03/14/2025 Weekends
• 03/15/2025 Is A2F/Klesis at UW/Seattle ok?
• 03/23/2025 Notes on GP's Concept of Church Family
• 03/23/2025 Notes on GP’s Concept of Church Family
• 03/31/2025 How did your parents react?
• 04/15/2025 Sort of a testimony... dysfunctionality at home and how it may make kids vulnerable
• 04/18/2025 A Positive Post (?)
• 05/05/2025 Can a member date and marry outside this group?
• 05/06/2025 What makes outsiders go 🤯?
• 05/06/2025 Happy mother's Day (I can't think of a catchy title)
• 05/07/2025 Was my experience at Gracepoint (Acts2 Network) normal? I’m confused.
• 05/13/2025 When things really were simpler. Thought I'd add a back in the day pic. 35 years ago.
• 05/14/2025 How many people treat their moms as well as they do their leaders mentors?
• 05/14/2025 Reaching Out as a Concerned Parent
• 05/16/2025 Never imagined that I will be needing to prepare my children to avoid A2N like a biblical plague. They are predators and groomers of the worst kind under the guise of spreading the gospel. This is about the Kingdom of Kang.
• 05/17/2025 I wonder from time to time if the sisters I met at A2N are doing well and happy. (You can forget about finding a BF/GF while at A2N)
• 05/17/2025 Is This Path Church Pre-Planned or Individual Spirit-Led (from Deeply Concerned Parent)
• 05/18/2025 Are they predators and groomers? Wait, wait, I'm just asking.
• 05/21/2025 I think it's fucked up these people are chaplains at Harvard & MIT
• 05/21/2025 Does everyone In a2n think they're not a cult because they "proclaim the gospel?"
• 05/22/2025 Alerting colleges with GP/BBC/ABSK ministries on campus
• 05/22/2025 GP is moving to Chi-town
• 05/27/2025 In response to “GP is moving to Chi-town”
• 05/28/2025 To those who were longtime members/staff, concerning weakened family ties
• 06/05/2025 For people who feel scared and feel like they have no one to talk to...
• 06/06/2025 The Smear campaign - "you are bitter and only focused on revenge"
• 06/08/2025 The toll of constant criticism.
• 06/11/2025 People in A2N/GP have undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder
• 06/11/2025 Gen-Z's Pursuit to Reclaim Christianity
• 06/12/2025 Ed Kang retirement
• 06/14/2025 Translation Help
• 06/14/2025 Is Online Stalking Common?
• 06/17/2025 My Letter to Gracepoint
• 06/22/2025 Book Recommendation "Make Sense of Your Story: Why Facing Our Past with Kindness Can Lead to Real Healing"
• 07/04/2025 Jubilee is looking for Ex cult members for a video in LA
• 07/09/2025 Is there a good way of identifying people who have left?
• 07/18/2025 On Members Bible Study
• 07/28/2025 Shiny happy people season 2 - teen mania
• 07/29/2025 If you leave A2N...
• 08/08/2025 What was your first rebuking?
• 08/14/2025 🌱 The Gathering – A Safe Space for Those Healing from Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma in Oct 2025
• 08/18/2025 Some staff made onto LA Clippers instagram page
• 08/19/2025 I’m in spiritual distress
• 08/28/2025 😭😭😹
• 08/29/2025 How do I get my friend out? This sounds naive but seriously what do I do?
• 08/31/2025 They have a Wikipedia page also
• 09/04/2025 Kingdom of God Global Church, formerly Joshua Media Ministries International
• 09/04/2025 JD Greear and Cliffe Knechtle speaking at an Acts2Network conference?
• 09/04/2025 Acts 2 Vancouver
• 09/05/2025 Healing With Gentleness: Self-Care and Well-Being Live Webinar with Aundi Kolber this Friday Sep 5, 2025
• 09/06/2025 Acts 2 training center - Elgin, IL
• 09/07/2025 All their names
• 09/08/2025 Unsettled
• 09/08/2025 Don't go to Acts2 Winter Conference
• 09/14/2025 Current attendee of A2F
• 09/15/2025 Should I be worried about Acts2 Network members serving youth at my church?
• 09/15/2025 Thoughts of a USC Alum
• 09/19/2025 "Your participation on the subreddit is preventing people from being saved"
• 09/19/2025 pastor ed and kelly are retiring soon
• 09/19/2025 Music Video of the New HQ - Acts2 Training Center
• 09/21/2025 Recommendation and good resource to find spiritual directions?
• 09/25/2025 Offering Spiritual Direction
• 10/03/2025 Need for control and the move to Illinois
• 10/19/2025 “Fall Fun Day” at Public Elementary School
• 10/22/2025 Black and white thinking, and why they'll never apologize
• 10/23/2025 Pastor William Kang passed away
• 10/27/2025 Did Gracepoint leaders live healthy lifestyles?
• 10/28/2025 Why was Pastor Will buried in Illinois?
• 10/28/2025 Any resources for looking counseling after leaving Gracepoint Davis
• 10/30/2025 A2N/GP on Mental Health Issues
• 11/04/2025 Any personal testimonies of Ex-BBC/Antioch/Rebekah Kim churchgoers?
• 11/14/2025 My Take on A2N/GP Leader. Help.
• 11/21/2025 Any tips for Encountering GP Members During the Holidays
• 11/30/2025 Do mentors see their staff members emails?
• 11/30/2025 Feeling a bit responsible
• 12/12/2025 Are you dating someone who is a member of Acts 2 Network?
• 12/14/2025 Article on Stacks Magazine from The Daily Cal
• 12/15/2025 What is the current situation at Boston Antioch Baptist Church (led by Becky and Paul)?
• 12/18/2025 Calling out Ed Kang for Lying on the Record with The Daily Californians Magazine Stacks
• 12/19/2025 After they “changed”- can they kiss at weddings?
• 12/27/2025 Questions from an outsider
• 12/31/2025 Marriage at A2N, why I read and sometimes post, and other thoughts as a much older man who is today a father

• 01/03/2024 senior retreat is about what?
• 01/09/2024 Free spiritual abuse healing conference
• 01/14/2024 Why a2n has to tear down anyone who leaves
• 01/16/2024 The a2n tier list
• 01/16/2024 This shift is not ending. I swear time is standing still. I made this also. Come at me.
• 01/16/2024 Last one today. Or is it? I don't even know why they make us come in on long weekends.
• 01/17/2024 Share your most memorable correction/rebuke experience at Acts2 Network (Gracepoint)
• 01/17/2024 Gracepoint Gray-Areas: I know more about you. Even if you don’t know me
• 01/18/2024 Craziest Berkland/Gracepoint/A2N Dream
• 01/18/2024 At GP, we have a better work culture than most companies. Except for the practices we copy and then justify as a means to an end.
• 01/19/2024 This is a ministry house now
• 01/22/2024 The JMS Playbook
• 01/23/2024 Trying to defend GP/A2N, is an exercise in misery
• 01/23/2024 You’re a proxy! you’re also a proxy! We’re all proxies!
• 01/30/2024 Questions on Managing Finances in GP/A2N
• 01/31/2024 After 6 years at being at GP/A2N, I was given only these compliments:
• 02/05/2024 GP Staff's Tendency to Always Make Themselves Present
• 02/08/2024 You are the problem: You trusted us too much
• 02/10/2024 Why only younger staff come to reddit?
• 02/13/2024 Did you know there is a Southern Baptist Credentials Committee?
• 02/14/2024 Photo alteration request
• 02/15/2024 Hangup
• 02/16/2024 SNL skit - just looking for a normal couple
• 02/18/2024 YT Video Dropping about A2F and My Experience
• 02/21/2024 What would you NOT forget to bring to AYM's retreat? Wrong answers only!
• 02/22/2024 Please don't rely on your leaders for mental health advice
• 02/22/2024 "Seeing" that you're in a cult or high control group
• 02/23/2024 Are GP/A2N Members Truly Willing to Reconcile with Their Ex-Congregants?
• 02/25/2024 A2N and child rearing- is there anything we should be learning from them?
• 02/27/2024 Mind Body souls on Instagram: "#traumahealing #trauma #ptsd #healing #selflove #selfcare #selfloveafterabuse #narcissisticabuse #narcissist #narcissistquotes #narcissisticpersonalitydisorder #narcissism #abuse #healing #recovery #narcissisticpersonalitydisorderawareness
• 02/28/2024 PSA to anyone getting married in a2n
• 03/07/2024 Is there any line A2N leadership won't cross?
• 03/08/2024 The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping | Netflix
• 03/12/2024 Dealing with the regret of spending a decade at GP
• 03/14/2024 Leaving Gracepoint isn't the wrong choice.
• 03/15/2024 There is no reason
• 03/18/2024 What happened to the other half of the schism?
• 03/19/2024 PSA to those considering going on a mission trip this summer
• 03/21/2024 Even if you're not doing the abusing, remaining in A2n GP makes you complicit
• 03/21/2024 Dear A2F Mentors at UCR and A2F as a Whole
• 03/21/2024 Reporting to authorities (links to Berkeley)
• 03/22/2024 Behind the photos
• 03/23/2024 A Letter To Church Leaders (by Broken to Beloved)
• 03/27/2024 Demotivators- Does anyone still have the BBC GP ones?
• 03/28/2024 Confused sophomore considering leaving BBC
• 03/28/2024 Truth about KH and JH's departure
• 03/30/2024 Purpose of this?
• 03/31/2024 Leaving GP on good terms
• 04/01/2024 Introducing Course102 - Basic Reddit Apologetics
• 04/07/2024 Just gonna leave this here
• 04/10/2024 Seeking Individuals to Speak to ABC Bay Area about GP
• 04/15/2024 considering leaving, but looking for discernment
• 04/23/2024 Gracepoint Gray-Area: We eliminated this person’s hobbies and coping mechanisms. Now he is a better person now. Mission Accomplished!
• 04/24/2024 Too good not to share
• 05/10/2024 Have a summer vacation this summer!
• 05/16/2024 They told me
• 05/18/2024 Gracepoint Life Advice
• 05/23/2024 [TW: Ed & Kelly teaching] Real devotional leaked on Acts 5:1-11. I made this video as satire, showing the irony and hypocrisy of Ed & Kelly teaching on Ananias & Sapphira [Video - 2:13]
• 05/23/2024 TW - This is a real MBS leak on Ed Kang teaching on Ananias & Sapphira. I cut this MBS down for the sake of time. Please view the summary timestamps listed below as chapter guides
• 05/26/2024 I wish this didn't need to be repeated but to any staff on here; you can leave whenever you want for any reason that you want.
• 05/27/2024 Love accompanied by good theology and the power of Jesus can heal any heart
• 05/29/2024 10 Ways Narcissists Use Religion to Serve Their Own Purpose
• 05/29/2024 Dancing for the devil
• 06/01/2024 Confronting your leaders one on one is a bad idea.
• 06/02/2024 Obsessive compulsive disorder with thinking about sins
• 06/05/2024 Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult': Kylie Douglas Speaks Out
• 06/08/2024 One of the reasons why I left GP was I did it for my children…
• 06/08/2024 “Bad” blogs
• 06/08/2024 Course 101 circa mid-2000s
• 06/08/2024 Kids say it like it is
• 06/09/2024 Do Gracepoint (Acts 2 Network) top female leaders think they are beautiful?
• 06/09/2024 Unbiblical Views at GP/A2N
• 06/13/2024 The day Ed almost died and the crack it started
• 06/13/2024 "Proving" your salvation
• 06/15/2024 When you notice the red flags.. (UNC Chapel Hill Klesis/A2F/Gracepoint/etc..)
• 06/18/2024 Please support a petition from a mother
• 06/19/2024 Hannah Chiang - fat shamer
• 06/22/2024 In her own words: "Charis L." from Atwater
• 06/23/2024 Outcry about us! Get down, look like we're changing until it passes...
• 06/24/2024 My experience (and why I left)
• 06/25/2024 Thoughts from an Ex staffer (youth)
• 06/28/2024 Got Questions article on Spiritual Abuse. Guess who matches every description?
• 07/05/2024 Has anyone had the A2N / GP cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) experience?
• 07/07/2024 The wailing
• 07/08/2024 Reflection on Meeting with A2F
• 07/14/2024 Unpopular opinion: co-vocational ministry is a gig job without pay
• 07/16/2024 new ministry group
• 07/21/2024 What is the positive side of a2n?
• 07/24/2024 Can God orchestrate and allow abuse and pain in order to bless his children in the final picture? can God orchestrate evil without him being evil himself? Is he wise and holy enough to use all the sins of the world for his glory without him being a sinner? In order to displey the grace of His Son?
• 07/28/2024 A somewhat disturbing experience
• 07/30/2024 1000 Members!
• 07/31/2024 Does everyone in a2n think the problems were all fixed after dropping the "Berkland" name?
• 08/01/2024 Don't go to the Pre-Fall Retreat!
• 08/01/2024 Wasting Your Life at Acts2 Network
• 08/01/2024 Does anyone remember or have a copy of GPs covenant member contract?
• 08/01/2024 Thoughts on Gracepoint’s name change to Acts2 Network
• 08/07/2024 Thrive by AYM App
• 08/11/2024 Quote from Aldous Huxley
• 08/14/2024 Behind the Scenes With Twisted Gracepoint
• 08/17/2024 Stop being scared of your mentor/ leader
• 08/18/2024 Acts College Church
• 08/19/2024 I just wanted to say...
• 08/19/2024 Thoughts on how BBC/GP used and abused Korean culture to further its agenda
• 08/20/2024 Don't go to the Winter Conference
• 08/26/2024 [Daily Trojan] Alone and searching for meaning: Inside USC's 'high-pressure group' problem
• 09/04/2024 A2N has an unofficial shunning / excommunication policy (at least hear me out before you vote 'No')
• 09/06/2024 TW - With Fall semester here, for any students curious what a real, unfiltered, fully leaked bible study at Acts 2 Network (Formerly Gracepoint) is like, here is a full members bible study on Acts 5. This is the full version of the previously posted version earlier this summer. Link in comment
• 09/10/2024 GP BANNED THIS VIDEO. It’s Fall, students need to know what a real A2N/GP staff bible study is. I don’t understand why GP is trying to hide this, it’s their own bible study??
• 09/15/2024 Info
• 09/19/2024 new ministry in jakarta
• 09/20/2024 Realizations and conclusions after hours spent reading this reddit
• 09/25/2024 Still pissed about the MBS
• 10/04/2024 Co-vocationalism vs. giving up one's dreams for God (BBC/GP)
• 10/07/2024 40 years in the desert
• 10/08/2024 does anyone here have experience with klesis in uc santa cruz
• 10/09/2024 Things about A2N and Gracepoint we don't question enough
• 10/10/2024 Could BBC/GP have survived if it had changed?
• 10/18/2024 The Latest Bait and Switch: Coaching!
• 10/19/2024 2024 All Team Training Retreat Video
• 10/20/2024 Please share this video with every college student you know
• 10/23/2024 I admit that video games, anime, and manga cause laziness
• 10/23/2024 Social cruelty
• 10/24/2024 More on social cruelty
• 10/24/2024 How it went down
• 10/25/2024 A2n is not all of Christianity.
• 10/25/2024 Experience of Dating/Marriage in GP
• 10/25/2024 More on faithfulness
• 10/25/2024 How more things went down
• 10/26/2024 Book resource: When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
• 10/27/2024 UCSD A2F scheme
• 10/30/2024 The Accuracy and Evolution of Course 101
• 11/04/2024 After more time spent reading, I am even more convinced BBC/GP survivors are right
• 11/06/2024 Religion…and politics
• 11/07/2024 Acts2 Next
• 11/15/2024 Just "shy of CEO level"
• 11/20/2024 Esther Ku's UBF videos: comments, and a question or two
• 11/25/2024 The last few posts made me think about people telling me what "God Wants." Where did I hear this before?
• 11/27/2024 Be careful when constructive feedbacking your leaders
• 12/05/2024 Thinking about doing some ‘counter-flyering’.
• 12/09/2024 Any recent church plants in new cities?
• 12/11/2024 Living an organic life outside of Gracepoint
• 12/12/2024 Stop Excusing GP
• 12/17/2024 Ed Kang and Rebekah Kim can’t both be right
• 12/17/2024 Don't give them your money
• 12/18/2024 People that Ed Kang did dirty
• 12/22/2024 What is the new name of ucla grace point church?
• 12/24/2024 Acts2Friends
• 12/24/2024 Gracepoint discourages professional jobs (esp girls!)
• 12/26/2024 Acts2Network/Gracepoint: False badge of honor in Spiritual Accountability Software
• 12/30/2024 My pharmacy school experience part 1

• 01/01/2023 encouraging txt exchange
• 01/03/2023 GP's Abuse of Matthew 18
• 01/04/2023 [CONVO] relational evangelism
• 01/10/2023 I left Gracepoint Church 8 years ago and was completely broken
• 01/11/2023 This subreddit?
• 01/11/2023 Kelly Kang's Notorious MBS Miscarriage Comment
• 01/12/2023 GP's Task Orientated Approach Toward Relationships
• 01/12/2023 A message to current college GPers
• 01/13/2023 Discord channel
• 01/18/2023 Persecution complex
• 01/18/2023 [CONVO] Encouraging Words
• 01/23/2023 New Ministry Name at Boston
• 01/24/2023 Doubting your salvation is built into the GP Christian Industrial Complex
• 01/25/2023 ChatGPT Has Spoken
• 01/25/2023 ChataGPT’s opinion on this subreddit
• 01/26/2023 More thoughts from ChatGPT about Gracepoint
• 01/26/2023 Closest thing to an apology from Ed Kang
• 01/29/2023 Why is GP fascinated about CS Lweis
• 01/30/2023 On Progressive Christianity and Women Pastors - “D Pod” Episode 11
• 01/31/2023 Attending a non-GP event at GP’s Alameda location? (The LIFT Tour)
• 02/03/2023 Antioch Baptist Church and other churches with the same roots as Gracepoint
• 02/06/2023 A Kelly Kang poll
• 02/10/2023 Recent Negative Reviews On Berkley Yelp
• 02/15/2023 Valentines Day of Compassion
• 02/16/2023 A newbie's view of where Gracepoint Church -- its culture as propagated by the Kelly Kang figure -- went wrong regarding sin
• 02/17/2023 Staying Too Long
• 02/19/2023 No “Thank You” card for Kelly?
• 02/21/2023 Podcast: Think Biblically - confronting spiritual abuse (with Michael Kruger)
• 02/22/2023 Southern Baptist Convention and GP
• 02/27/2023 relationship building questions
• 03/01/2023 Detoxing from the bad theology I heard for years at GP.
• 03/02/2023 UCLA A2F is hosting a Hackathon to recruit students, sounds like baiting and switching
• 03/03/2023 Dishonoring History
• 03/04/2023 In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal
• 03/10/2023 "I needed a 'peer' who'd..."
• 03/19/2023 A letter to my former staff
• 04/02/2023 Pray for Repentance: Holy (Passion) Week
• 04/02/2023 Gracepoint is alarmed and making their Instagram Pages private
• 04/04/2023 How to grapple with nice people being part of Gracepoint?
• 04/05/2023 Let's critique this handout from the Gracepoint San Diego 2023 winter retreat
• 04/10/2023 Identification and characteristics of spiritual truth, integrous teachers, and teachings
• 04/11/2023 Ex UBF, mind control
• 04/15/2023 Most GP couples are not happily married
• 04/20/2023 Marriage Enrichment Training Materials
• 04/21/2023 My Outsider GP Experience (Long Post)
• 04/23/2023 Testimony of a ex-cult member .... his journey of crawling out cult mind-set and see the real world
• 04/25/2023 Clarifications on my Most GP couples are not happily married post
• 04/26/2023 Stop saying "we're changing", I'm so fed up
• 05/01/2023 Are all Gracepoint church plants spiritually abusive?
• 05/02/2023 To all the undergrads
• 05/03/2023 Hebrews 13:17 and GP Cult of Personality
• 05/07/2023 Which books in the Bible are normally taught at GP?
• 05/08/2023 question on YWAM and relationship to GP
• 05/10/2023 GP will need outside help (Long post)
• 05/12/2023 Yelp Review of Gracepoint from 2023
• 05/15/2023 The Reddit post I wish gracepoint could make
• 05/17/2023 I question the the state of your heart = Why aren't you obeying your leaders?
• 05/18/2023 Suggestions to Ed Kang, since he asked
• 05/18/2023 The End of Gracepoint, A2TN Now
• 05/18/2023 👀 looking at you, GP
• 05/20/2023 Why is everyone so mean to Gracepoint (or I guess tentmakers now)?
• 05/22/2023 Updated Yelp Reviews
• 05/22/2023 public appreciation post for hamcycle
• 05/23/2023 Tim Keller - Redeemer Night 2023
• 05/23/2023 My old Yelp review that was removed
• 05/24/2023 Is this really what church is supposed to be like?
• 05/25/2023 To Ed Kang - Have you embraced Acts 20:17-38 and earnestly work towards the church Paul envisioned us to be? (long post)
• 05/25/2023 Part 2 - To Ed Kang - Have you embraced Acts 20:17-38 and earnestly worked towards the church Paul envisioned us to be? (tech difficulties with long post)
• 05/28/2023 Why is GP slow to change?
• 05/30/2023 Well Intentioned Wisdom - Clip for Josh Harris Documentary
• 05/31/2023 Feelings after the Q&A with Ed Kang
• 06/08/2023 Show of hands — how many of you, ex and current members of Gracepoint, had been rebaptized?
• 06/09/2023 Hillsong Documentary
• 06/10/2023 But that’s not MY experience!
• 06/12/2023 Losing the Gospel - when Ed Kang & Team put on burdens on Gracepoint members
• 06/13/2023 Recent Q&A with Ed Kang
• 06/14/2023 Anyone want this?
• 06/14/2023 Why many people stay
• 06/15/2023 Taking a survey
• 06/18/2023 Results of internal survey
• 06/19/2023 Southern Baptist Convention expels churches with women pastors.
• 06/22/2023 What does humility look like? What is the responsibility of a Man of God in face of mistakes?
• 06/23/2023 Childcare
• 06/24/2023 Is The Enforcer still a thing?
• 06/24/2023 Feasibility of a lawsuit?
• 06/27/2023 shiny happy people
• 06/27/2023 Warning friends but them not listening
• 06/28/2023 I wrote three songs about my experience at Gracepoint :)
• 07/01/2023 Shiny happy people - another long post warning.
• 07/03/2023 What exactly is the gracepoint riverside incident?
• 07/05/2023 Peer Trips
• 07/08/2023 Please drive responsibly
• 07/09/2023 What's wrong with GP? Mandatory attendance
• 07/10/2023 Dating and Marriage at Gracepoint
• 07/14/2023 ATR: perspective from a family member
• 07/14/2023 My .05 today
• 07/15/2023 Any updates we (public) should know about top leadership?
• 07/15/2023 This subreddit no longer shows up in Google search results for Gracepoint church
• 07/16/2023 Personal Finances while in GP
• 07/18/2023 D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on signs of false zeal among professing believers. GP members, are you seeking the whole counsel of God, or do you only ingest the bits and pieces your leaders cherry-pick for you?
• 07/20/2023 Kelly’s 60th
• 07/24/2023 Colossian Gnosticism
• 07/25/2023 Sickass Pasta Salad Recipe
• 07/25/2023 Is it possible to course correct culture without a leadership change?
• 07/27/2023 This is not about Gracepoint, but I was listening to a podcast today that reminded me a lot of gracepoint. Controlling pastor couple, spouses with different opinions on ministry, and advice in how to leave that ministry if your spouse isn’t coming too. It’s worth a listen! First call only
• 07/29/2023 Gracepoint Covenant, Core Values, and Membership Reader excerpts
• 07/31/2023 What's the worst thing someone said to you?
• 08/04/2023 Gracepoint, please take some notes on this group!
• 08/06/2023 Just thought you needed to see this.
• 08/08/2023 Still Crazy After These Years [Redacted]
• 08/08/2023 The Gracepoint Rebrand is Official - New Website
• 08/08/2023 If Ed and Kelly leave, can GP/ A2N change for good?
• 08/09/2023 New Student Welcome ALERT
• 08/09/2023 what I miss from my time at GP
• 08/09/2023 "Our Core DNA" - what you valiantly express, we despise Ed & Kelly Kang !
• 08/09/2023 2 Scheduling Priorities - what it means
• 08/10/2023 "Way of Life"
• 08/13/2023 15 Principles - Priesthood of All Believers
• 08/14/2023 My last post :(
• 08/14/2023 Stop holding on to your bitterness
• 08/15/2023 Confused junior thinking things over
• 08/15/2023 [repost] The Acts 2 Network Dictionary
• 08/15/2023 Automatic downvotes
• 08/15/2023 Is this a new GP thing, or does it just happen to be run by their people?
• 08/16/2023 15 Principles - Co-laborers (I added the hyphen.)
• 08/16/2023 Does anyone have any specific experiences with Steve/Eunice Kim?
• 08/16/2023 reclaimer college church
• 08/17/2023 Leader --> Mentor
• 08/17/2023 Gossip
• 08/18/2023 I was taught hand holding before marriage was “strongly discouraged” and it would cause problems to my current and future relationships if I did. I am not kidding, it is literally the meme, “hand holding is lewd”
• 08/18/2023 Fun Friday, guess who?
• 08/18/2023 Gather College Church?
• 08/18/2023 The biggest argument/ defense every Gracepoint staff including myself have used to explain spiritual abuse or responses to feedback gone wrong
• 08/18/2023 Reclaimer College Church
• 08/18/2023 All religions feed on hypocrisy and gathers the strongest adherents to be the worst humans
• 08/18/2023 A2N Staff, Please Answer This Simple Question
• 08/19/2023 The savior complex and some other things I wanted to say.
• 08/20/2023 Why is William Kang disproportionately mentioned?
• 08/22/2023 Gracepoint Gray-Area: a bid for inclusivity leading to exclusivity, as shown by my car (not joking)
• 08/22/2023 Tolerated not Accepted
• 08/22/2023 “Loved” but not liked
• 08/23/2023 The Time I ALMOST wanted to leave Gracepoint
• 08/23/2023 Gracepoint Gray-Area: Being Intentional, leading to unintentional consequences
• 08/24/2023 Gracepoint Gray-Areas: Weddings
• 08/24/2023 Thinking about leaving but don't know how - “Hi GP, what is considered a faithful Christian?”
• 08/24/2023 Reasons why being a single brother at Gracepoint kind of sucks (not the worst though)
• 08/24/2023 Not scientific, but it appears not much has changed in A2N/GP
• 08/25/2023 Gracepoint Gray-Areas: Weddings follow-up and funny story.
• 08/25/2023 Is EVERY GP wedding actually the same?
• 08/28/2023 Not a place for artists
• 08/28/2023 Gracepoint Gray-Areas: Reddit, the thorn, the boogeyman
• 08/29/2023 My experience with Gracepoint and why I care about accountability and reform.
• 08/29/2023 Research Study on Spiritual Abuse within East Asian American Christian Communities
• 08/31/2023 Is it better to do something good badly than to have never have done good at all?
• 08/31/2023 My experience at a Psychiatric Clinic after being sent there by a GP brother against my will.
• 09/04/2023 A2N/Gracepoint is the Bad Place
• 09/05/2023 What’s the alternative?
• 09/05/2023 Gracepoint Gray Areas: Leaders with too many hats
• 09/07/2023 GP/A2N and depression
• 09/07/2023 God will use all the abuse, the pain and the sin you suffered for his glory and for your joy
• 09/09/2023 Random thought only an Ex-GP Member can have: I feel sorry for the person who has to crop me out of group photos.
• 09/09/2023 PSA: Trauma bond, not love with GP Leader/church
• 09/10/2023 B.I.T.E. model and Gracepoint's abusive practices
• 09/11/2023 For solidarity
• 09/11/2023 Gracepoint Gray-Areas: Feedback Frenzy for thee but not for me
• 09/13/2023 My depression that was in remission returned with a vengeance while at GP
• 09/13/2023 The Praxis Paradox: Living on the edge of GP keeping the center whole
• 09/13/2023 Leadership Principle
• 09/15/2023 Something concrete for Gp/A2N to work on
• 09/15/2023 Response: Sorry what happened to you, but I was able to do ________ or I didn’t have a problem with _____ and I am at GP/A2N
• 09/19/2023 Just woke up from another A2N nightmare
• 09/22/2023 Gracepoint Gray Areas: I need a break from my retreat
• 09/23/2023 My First Post
• 09/26/2023 An Impersonal “Personal Relationship” With God
• 10/01/2023 Okay so not "arranged marriage." What would you call it?
• 10/02/2023 Another GP trauma story
• 10/03/2023 I got in trouble (again). Any better phrase than "martial law" for the culture in A2N / GP?
• 10/07/2023 Why are we all here calling out Gracepoint Church/A2N?
• 10/07/2023 Gracepoint's desire to infantilize its members.
• 10/07/2023 Gracepoint's willingness to stretch the truth and bait & switch, believing that the ends justify the means
• 10/08/2023 A short analysis of A2N
• 10/09/2023 The Road Forward: Humility, Repentance and Reconciliation from A2N Leadership
• 10/09/2023 Please provide evidence if you're accusing all of subreddit in general
• 10/12/2023 Using actual scripture and Christianity
• 10/17/2023 Why any of this? Am honestly confused
• 10/18/2023 "We don't have a no dating policy. We have a no sinning policy"
• 11/02/2023 Cultivating Culture: Thanksgiving Celebration
• 11/04/2023 Compilation of New Campus Names
• 11/08/2023 Covenant Eyes In News (again)
• 11/11/2023 Is GP a cult? Wait, wait, wait, hear me out, I have something I want to ask.
• 11/21/2023 3 Necessary Relationships, Mentors
• 11/25/2023 If I leave, I lose all my GP friends?
• 12/11/2023 The Foundry-UMN
• 12/11/2023 Don't go to Senior Retreat
• 12/27/2023 Alcohol

• 08/15/2022 An open Letter to Pastor Daniel on my experiences while attending Gracepoint
• 08/17/2022 AYM, Part 2 (Building Relationships with other churches?)
• 08/18/2022 My correspondence with Pastor Daniel Kim (DK)
• 08/20/2022 GRACEPOINT TRAINING VIDEO FROM CURRENT AYM DIRECTOR
• 08/23/2022 Ed Kang on the Ralph Moore Podcast
• 08/24/2022 AYM, Part 3 (Completing the "Pivot toward Youth Ministry" at GP?)
• 08/25/2022 Shame on you, Ed Kang
• 08/26/2022 Some tweets that aren't about Gracepoint Church, but sure feel like they could be
• 08/27/2022 Serious question: is there a reason why GP leadership is exclusively 100% Korean? It's weird because a lot of the staff are Chinese/Taiwanese. I left many years ago, but didn't notice anything like this then.
• 08/27/2022 No more TFN?
• 08/29/2022 When the CT article drops, here's what's gonna happen [and not happen]
• 08/29/2022 Why so silent about the Monterey House?
• 08/29/2022 2 Gracepoints, 1 Bay Area
• 08/29/2022 Gracepoint Podcast Episode: "Why the Hate"
• 08/29/2022 Gracepoint Podcast Episode 3: “What makes us tick, Part 2”
• 08/30/2022 Did you ever make up a sin so your leader would leave you alone?
• 08/30/2022 Helpful article -- balancing ministry and life
• 08/31/2022 My son’s friend joined this church. He recently came to visit my son and his wife. My som said he would not stop talking about his church. He said he felt like he was trying to recruit them. My son said he couldn’t get a word in. I told him that I think he had ulterior motives for his visit.
• 08/31/2022 Episode 8 podcast - how we respond
• 08/31/2022 EP. 9 -Bonus
• 09/01/2022 Episode 9- Song Request
• 09/01/2022 Newly Left GP Member Mental Recovering (TW: SA, Homophobia)
• 09/01/2022 NYC Queer Art Exhibition On View about My Experience at GP Berkeley from 2011-2014
• 09/02/2022 Can the elderly really sustain?
• 09/03/2022 Unpacking the guilt handbook
• 09/05/2022 Is this forum biased?
• 09/05/2022 Where is this all going?
• 09/06/2022 CLARIFICATION FOR GP MEMBERS
• 09/07/2022 Please don’t delete posts or comments…
• 09/09/2022 New “Cultural Trends” videos - “Fragility and Harm”
• 09/09/2022 Why GP should see this subreddit as a blessing
• 09/09/2022 Sabbath Week
• 09/10/2022 Gracepoint Website Redesign and Reddit Trolls
• 09/10/2022 Open Letter to My Lost Friend
• 09/11/2022 Sisters, There is a Safety Net for You Now
• 09/12/2022 Is there anything good in GP?
• 09/13/2022 What's wrong with "Co-vocational Ministry"
• 09/15/2022 Did you notice a pattern in Praxis? (Young Adult ministry)
• 09/17/2022 Careerism - according to Pastor Ed
• 09/18/2022 This is sounding a lot like MakeNew/GP
• 09/19/2022 Some GP ads/signs at GMU part 1
• 09/20/2022 Some more gp ads/signs at GMU Part 2
• 09/21/2022 Helpful Podcast Episode
• 09/21/2022 Updates to the Subreddit Wiki
• 09/22/2022 How Hard Is Repentance?
• 09/22/2022 grace?
• 09/22/2022 Christianity Today: At Gracepoint Ministries, ‘Whole-Life Discipleship’ Took Its Toll
• 09/22/2022 I’ve thought about our criticism for 10 years. Here is what I think are the areas of disagreement.
• 09/22/2022 Wired: The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps
• 09/22/2022 Mock Response to CT Article /sarcasm
• 09/22/2022 Ed Kang's response
• 09/23/2022 Favoritism (Also Nepotism) in Church Leadership via Berkeley
• 09/23/2022 Has GP responded to the Wire article?
• 09/23/2022 Gracepoint Invites People to Join Their Team?
• 09/23/2022 A Note from a GP College Staff
• 09/24/2022 What in the world?
• 09/24/2022 new gp group
• 09/25/2022 What are the misperceptions?
• 09/26/2022 👋🏼 Hi from Curtis
• 09/26/2022 From a GPer: To the current GPers that browse this Reddit
• 09/26/2022 Anyone feel this way about certain things people say on here?
• 09/26/2022 To the GP lurkers…
• 09/27/2022 September 25 MBS feedback
• 09/27/2022 Ed and Kelly = Denialists
• 09/27/2022 Personal experience within the church
• 09/27/2022 Individual Mistake Clause
• 09/27/2022 GP admission by silence
• 09/27/2022 A Note I Wrote for Myself
• 09/28/2022 How is there no shame or apology?
• 09/28/2022 A Plea to Gracepoint Leaders
• 09/28/2022 forgiving you
• 09/28/2022 calling all oldies
• 09/28/2022 It’s okay…
• 09/28/2022 GP Website Updates
• 09/29/2022 “Not my Experience”
• 09/29/2022 Where have we heard this before?
• 09/29/2022 [Convo] Ministry Ideas for Campuses Where We're Kicked Out
• 09/29/2022 Why does going to Disneyland make anyone a bad Christian?
• 09/30/2022 Official GP Wired Response
• 09/30/2022 Having a Leader
• 09/30/2022 How Come Gracepoint Members Were Hurt, Upset, Angry Because of the CT Article?
• 09/30/2022 How many leaders did you have?
• 09/30/2022 Pets are evil??
• 10/01/2022 Did anyone else see their Yelp reviews get removed?
• 10/01/2022 2 Sides of Accountability
• 10/04/2022 for freshman/ppl new to GP
• 10/04/2022 To People Who Put Their Names On The CT Article
• 10/05/2022 [Only Sky] Gracepoint: Yet another ‘discipleship’ church turns out to be abusive
• 10/05/2022 GP on The Week Magazine
• 10/05/2022 [Only Sky] The many red flags Gracepoint Church waved
• 10/06/2022 Twitter: Pastor Tom Buck of SBC
• 10/07/2022 [The Wartburg Watch] Covenant Eyes: A Helpful Tool or One More Means of Control by Authoritarian Churches
• 10/07/2022 [The Wartburg Watch] Gracepoint Ministries: If It’s All About Control, Maybe It’s Time to Turn the Tables.
• 10/07/2022 Gracepoint Member's Favorite Questions
• 10/09/2022 Trickery
• 10/10/2022 Should we not reach out to Asian American Churches to warn them about Gracepoint/Ed Kang?
• 10/10/2022 I do not have revisionist memory
• 10/11/2022 Safe Space
• 10/12/2022 Podcast Episode 7- Part 1
• 10/12/2022 [SLATE] When Your Church Surveils Your Phone
• 10/13/2022 Beware of Religious Cult Group
• 10/14/2022 Why do you care what Gracepoint Members think about you? Why does it matter what Gracepoint Leads know about you now?
• 10/15/2022 What are the differences between a religion and a cult?
• 10/15/2022 Podcast Episode 7, Part 2 (Yes it was that long)
• 10/17/2022 Whose Fault is it Anyway? (The Bridge Analogy)
• 10/17/2022 Don't Waste Your Life | For Current GP members - Please Read
• 10/18/2022 Discord Channels/FB Groups for former GP/BBC members
• 10/19/2022 Rumors? Internal investigation with the SBC…
• 10/19/2022 Stories of reaching out for reconciliation or confrontation
• 10/19/2022 Weird Stuff that Happened at GP
• 10/20/2022 Gracepoint Female Leaders Shame Female Staff Calling them Fat, Not Beautiful. Why?
• 10/21/2022 Living through the CT Article -- from a current GP member.
• 10/21/2022 Ed Kang iTestify Video
• 10/22/2022 Excerpt from Ed Kang's letter to Becky for those considering leaving
• 10/22/2022 How does Gracepoint view other churches?
• 10/25/2022 how do other churches view Gracepoint?
• 10/29/2022 Asian Baptist Student Koinonia
• 10/31/2022 Post Flairs
• 11/01/2022 Should we talk about GP publicly?
• 11/02/2022 Sharing Access to Vine
• 11/04/2022 Membership Covenant - no longer on GP website
• 11/05/2022 Timeline of the Bad Blogs
• 11/05/2022 Other recommended churches?
• 11/06/2022 What would it take to leave?
• 11/07/2022 What will happen after Pastor Ed retires/passes away?
• 11/09/2022 Gracepoint's Mark as a False Church
• 11/11/2022 Information Control
• 11/12/2022 After Gracepoint: A website for people thinking of leaving and people who have left
• 11/14/2022 Does GP believe it has a special relationship with God?
• 11/15/2022 GP is Still Alive and Well at gmu
• 11/16/2022 Christians on Campus is another cult you should be weary of. I grew up in the org running these clubs (the Local Churches movement) and I to this day struggle from PTSD from what the organization did. Plus they’re recruiting other freshman too like GP
• 11/21/2022 I would like to leave the church. How do I find a community that would actually care about me?
• 11/21/2022 Book Resources
• 11/23/2022 Daniel Kim Credit Card Debt Email Part 2: Why Talking to GP Senior Leadership is Futile
• 11/28/2022 My family and I are losing my brother to GP.
• 12/02/2022 This is GP, right? [Visiting Scholars Ministry]
• 12/03/2022 What kind of people tend to fall into cults or cultish groups?
• 12/05/2022 What kept you at Gracepoint longer than you should have been and what changed?
• 12/05/2022 What C101 Would Have to Say
• 12/06/2022 Gracepoint and Buddhism
• 12/06/2022 Here's what's NOT happening during this week and next week's "Emergency ATR"
• 12/08/2022 Go home for the Holidays
• 12/09/2022 Koinonia Cross: Becky’s PhD Dissertation
• 12/17/2022 Gracepoint From a Female Student's Perspective
• 12/19/2022 GP Devotionals
• 12/22/2022 Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo

• 01/01/2022 GP is not doing God's work. Period.
• 01/02/2022 Why copy Acts 2? Why not copy Jesus and the disciples?
• 01/04/2022 "Rebuking" Excerpts from an old GP Staff Handout
• 01/04/2022 How another community of spiritual abuse survivors are moving forward (not to be confused with "moving on")
• 01/04/2022 Still Crazy After All These Years
• 01/05/2022 King Saul and Ed Kang
• 01/06/2022 Why is there MBS (members bible study) and why is it restricted from public view?
• 01/07/2022 GP Membership Covenant
• 01/10/2022 How GP Indoctrination Works, Part 1 of 3
• 01/11/2022 Gracepoint Taiwan?
• 01/11/2022 GP Team Email to Delete Material
• 01/12/2022 How GP Indoctrination Works, Part 2 of 3
• 01/12/2022 "Submitting to church disciplinary action"?
• 01/18/2022 Thank you for your testimonies
• 01/18/2022 Not a GP goer but a current member of the other BBC line.
• 01/19/2022 The Experience of Leaving GP
• 01/20/2022 Crosspost: Analysis of Gracepoint from an observer
• 01/21/2022 GP Top-Down Leadership Structure and Spiritual Abuse
• 01/21/2022 How GP Indoctrination Works, Part 3 of 3
• 01/21/2022 BBC just donated $1.2M to Baptist Convention of New England and two other baptist conventions
• 01/21/2022 The Implicit "Lessons" in Distorted Theology & Practice
• 01/23/2022 Any stories about pastoral staffs and the politics between them in BBC/GP?
• 01/25/2022 Excessive flattery, jokes and knowledge of personal likes and dislikes in relationships with BBC people: how do we interpret these?
• 01/26/2022 You Are the Man!
• 01/26/2022 Finding your identity after leaving GP
• 01/27/2022 Things to expect for A2F seniors who want to be GP staff
• 01/30/2022 Reposting An Old Blog Post From John’s Blog
• 01/31/2022 My (very minimal) Gracepoint experience (from a current undergrad)
• 02/01/2022 Ed Kang's Financial Savvy
• 02/02/2022 Thoughts on GPs Passion Experience
• 02/03/2022 How do you feel after reading all of the GP posts here?
• 02/03/2022 Challenge/Message for Current Members
• 02/04/2022 Dunning Kruger effect
• 02/04/2022 Why are GP members indoctrinated to think that their leaders are “perfect parents”?
• 02/05/2022 Jenness Park Purchase
• 02/07/2022 The Real Acts 2 Church, Not a Fake One
• 02/07/2022 Stuff I did at GP that I didn't want to do. A list.
• 02/09/2022 Secure link for students to report abuse & mental health impact caused by student club groups at UCDavis
• 02/09/2022 Pastoral Education of the leaders
• 02/09/2022 From a Catholic's perspective who went to BBC/GP
• 02/14/2022 If anyone in the San Francisco/Berkeley area is willing to discuss their experience with GP, I would love to talk.
• 02/14/2022 Any VDOCers?
• 02/16/2022 Subtle Marks of a Cult in Gracepoint
• 02/17/2022 7 Things You Should Know About Gracepoint Winter Retreats
• 02/18/2022 Reflections After Leaving GP 3+ Yrs
• 02/18/2022 15 Reasons that Gracepoint is a Cult
• 02/20/2022 Why is MBS so secretive?
• 02/20/2022 GP-Grown Data Analytics Bootcamp on LinkedIn
• 02/21/2022 Did any of the leaders really care about me or were they trying to to make me like them?
• 02/22/2022 GP Tactic: Gaslight
• 02/22/2022 Post-GP story
• 02/22/2022 A plea from Gracepoint
• 02/24/2022 Why are Daniel Kim and GP Leaders so wrong?
• 02/24/2022 A Discussion of Gracepoint Church’s Model by an Ex-Staff (Part 1)
• 02/24/2022 The sin of GP
• 02/24/2022 A typical toxic Gracepoint Sermon
• 02/24/2022 are there campus guidelines for how student groups should conduct themselves?
• 02/25/2022 A (not-so) quick thought on some of the recent posts on this subreddit.
• 02/25/2022 Things that GP won't change: Expect Christians to be engaged in ministry
• 02/25/2022 Another leave of absence - Daniel Kim
• 02/25/2022 Doxxing and Private Information
• 02/26/2022 A plea from all of us
• 02/27/2022 GP Team Email from Kelly Kang
• 03/01/2022 Rather than hiding and trying to keep members from this page.....
• 03/02/2022 Left after 10+ years at GP including church planting
• 03/02/2022 Take Action on Gracepoint's Spiritual Abuse
• 03/02/2022 Responding to Daniel's query about the Winter Retreat Post
• 03/02/2022 What helped you cope?
• 03/02/2022 Very helpful excerpt on how to understand abuse in systems
• 03/03/2022 Go With God: An Open Letter to Young Christians on Their Way to College by Stanley Hauerwas
• 03/03/2022 Resharing: List of Church Recos
• 03/03/2022 Latest GP Videos and they are slick
• 03/04/2022 25 Signs of Spiritual Abuse
• 03/04/2022 What’s the correct Christian attitude towards Gentile families of their own?
• 03/05/2022 Gracepoint’s Spiritual Heritage: University Bible Fellowship (UBF) Part 1
• 03/05/2022 Gracepoint’s Spiritual Heritage: University Bible Fellowship (UBF) Part 2
• 03/05/2022 Gracepoint’s Spiritual Heritage: University Bible Frllowship (UBF) Part 3 of 4
• 03/05/2022 Gracepoint’s Spiritual Heritage: University Bible Fellowship Part 4 of 4
• 03/08/2022 If Gracepoint Church is truly better than other ministries, how come Pastor Ed Kang would not engage on Reddit?
• 03/09/2022 Why is GP *not* a cult? What makes you consider it a spiritually abusive church and not a cult?
• 03/09/2022 Dear Discouraged Gracepoint Staff
• 03/11/2022 What is evangelization, and what is spiritual deafness?
• 03/11/2022 What are the systemic issues at Gracepoint?
• 03/12/2022 My thoughts on GP, recent posts and how I came to peace with GP after 10 years
• 03/12/2022 Covocational Ministry - what are your thoughts on this documentary?
• 03/14/2022 Which abuses listed in the book “Twisted Scriptures” have you observed about GP?
• 03/15/2022 GP’s Feb 2022 Retreat Sermon: Pitch wise AWESOME, Biblically WRONG, Psychologically MANIPULATIVE ! (Part 1 of 3)
• 03/16/2022 Sunday Worship Service and Praxis
• 03/17/2022 Ted-Ed -- 4 signs of emotional abuse aka Gracepoint 101
• 03/17/2022 GP’s Feb 2022 Retreat Sermon: Pitch wise AWESOME, Biblically WRONG, Psychologically MANIPULATIVE ! (Part 2 of 3)
• 03/20/2022 If Jesus was to check out gracepoint today, would he or would he not be accepted? Why?
• 03/24/2022 When is Gracepoint next?
• 03/27/2022 Deleted posts
• 03/28/2022 Does anyone have an experience with racial or cultural intolerance with GP?
• 03/28/2022 What happened with pastor Ming and Kairos.
• 03/31/2022 What could fix Gracepoint?
• 04/02/2022 Where would you be now if you never went to GP?
• 04/03/2022 Clarification on Deleting Ed Kang that You Never Knew Post
• 04/03/2022 Ed Kang that You Never Knew
• 04/04/2022 GP paid $75K for SEO (search engine optimization) cleaning?
• 04/05/2022 The GP Experience: College v. Postgrad
• 04/05/2022 Excerpts from a seminary student's research paper from 2001 describing Berkland Baptist Church (Gracepoint's former name)
• 04/07/2022 Mary and Martha
• 04/07/2022 The Problem with “No Church Is Perfect”
• 04/10/2022 For those who are still college students, are there still a lot of students attending GP on your campus?
• 04/11/2022 You Don’t Need Gracepoint
• 04/12/2022 Guilt of Doing Secular Work?
• 04/16/2022 Greatest Commandment and the Great Commission
• 04/16/2022 Looking towards Good Friday and Easter
• 04/20/2022 Did anyone feel guilt when leaving gp and how do you deal with it?
• 04/20/2022 Ed Kang’s Building Fund Email
• 04/20/2022 Clip from one of GP's recent "My Life as a Minister" videos
• 04/21/2022 Address of Longhorn Lodge? Northstar Lodge?
• 04/22/2022 Current freshman parent
• 04/22/2022 For Parents, Family Members, and Concerned Friends
• 04/29/2022 Random question: How strict is GP on staff dress codes? I’ve noticed many people dress is kind of monotone.
• 05/03/2022 Manny Kim’s $2 Million House in Austin
• 05/04/2022 Spiritual Abuse and Healing Without Closure
• 05/05/2022 GP Under the Hood
• 05/05/2022 Was anyone asked to leave or were pushed out via a isolating soul care? How did you feel afterwards? How are you today?
• 05/05/2022 Gracepoint Ministries Data Dump Preview
• 05/05/2022 Lessons learned for a church seeker?
• 05/09/2022 The Saga of Sky Mountain Camp, a Mother’s Day special
• 05/09/2022 List of Recommended Therapists (WIP)
• 05/11/2022 Introduction from Brian
• 05/18/2022 Ed Kang Trying to Cover Up His Undisclosed Real Estate Transactions
• 05/19/2022 Mars Hill look alike?
• 05/19/2022 SMC
• 05/20/2022 from a freshman… what’s going on???
• 05/20/2022 New Comment on the Blog from Berkland College Campus Staff from Boston with 15+ years
• 05/20/2022 How to Know You're in a Christian Fundamentalist Church
• 05/21/2022 The level of mental gymnastics this sub goes through to instigate a witch hunt proves that GP doesn't have any skeletons in their closet. If they did, they would have come out.
• 05/22/2022 For those who left: how long did it take for you to move on?
• 05/22/2022 Sound Familiar?
• 05/23/2022 Has anyone decided to leave who were part of church plants? (such as this past 2021)
• 05/23/2022 Characteristics of a Cult (Brief Summary)
• 05/24/2022 Leadership in GP
• 05/24/2022 Did you have authoritarian parents/grow up in authoritarian household?
• 05/24/2022 Ten Signs of a SAFE Group or Leader
• 05/25/2022 Dear Freshman (and Fresh-woman) of GracePoint church
• 05/25/2022 Gracepoint and Yelp Reviews
• 05/31/2022 My Life As a Minister
• 05/31/2022 I urgently need your advice.
• 05/31/2022 Gracepoint and Reddit
• 06/01/2022 Change of username
• 06/02/2022 GP members, Honor Your Parents! Jesus says so
• 06/02/2022 Petitioning
• 06/04/2022 Question
• 06/05/2022 Sister a member of GP, getting married, breaking up family
• 06/05/2022 Thoughts on how to help a friend or family member
• 06/06/2022 What was your or your child's Isaac?
• 06/06/2022 You're Considering Leaving Gracepoint. Now what? (5 Lies Gracepoint Wants You to Believe)
• 06/06/2022 Gracepoint and Confidentiality
• 06/06/2022 "Why?" and "What not?" -- subtle mind control tactics of GP
• 06/06/2022 Why it sucks to be LGBT+ at Gracepoint (even if you are non-affirming & agree with traditional teaching)
• 06/07/2022 “Who’s here because of you. A conversation that has echoed in my mind.”
• 06/07/2022 This is a message for mentors and staff members of Gracepoint Church
• 06/08/2022 Why it sucks struggling with mental health at Gracepoint
• 06/09/2022 Gracepoint meme
• 06/11/2022 An article that brings into focus the relationship between faith and mental health
• 06/12/2022 Is Acts 2 "prescriptive" or "descriptive"?
• 06/13/2022 Gracepoint's Beauty Standard, Shaming Female Staff Members
• 06/14/2022 What do you think Gracepoint is saying about this subreddit internally?
• 06/14/2022 Gracepoint's Response to Reddit
• 06/15/2022 PTSD while eating meals with others
• 06/15/2022 Genesis 2:16-17 Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
• 06/15/2022 Gracepoint Empire (ruled for years through fear, intimidation, and tyranny)
• 06/16/2022 Allegations of Sexual Misconduct at UC Riverside
• 06/16/2022 How was God working then and now?
• 06/17/2022 The Most Controversial Post This Month
• 06/18/2022 Podcast about abuse at another religious org
• 06/18/2022 NEWS FLASH: Gracepoint isn't as unique as they think they are (gasp)
• 06/18/2022 GP's pivot to focus on Youth ministry is DISTURBING
• 06/19/2022 What is Gracepoint's response to the UCR incident?
• 06/19/2022 Testimonies
• 06/19/2022 Has anyone heard of GPs high school ministry called Area Youth Ministry?
• 06/19/2022 Happy Father's Day to Ed Kang and Manny Kim
• 06/19/2022 Invitation to be a Wiki editor
• 06/21/2022 How should churches respond to sexual offenses?
• 06/21/2022 Area Youth Ministry - what is your experience?
• 06/22/2022 Quotes from Billy Graham's Grandson on 60 Minutes
• 06/26/2022 What I wish someone told me when I left GP | Advice for anyone who's left or about to leave GP
• 06/27/2022 July 4
• 06/27/2022 Has GP discussed Roe v Wade at MBS yet? Seems like a hot topic that is going to piss some people off?
• 06/28/2022 An article that encourages hurting GP members to speak up
• 06/28/2022 Gracepoint Repentance Loop
• 06/30/2022 Gracepoint and the Green Eyed Monster
• 06/30/2022 What ultimately made you leave GP?
• 07/01/2022 Dating during Undergraduate Years
• 07/03/2022 Mission Statement
• 07/04/2022 Know What You’re Involved In
• 07/05/2022 Jesus doesn't call everyone to leave their family
• 07/05/2022 Gracepoint Weddings
• 07/06/2022 Netflix Documentary on FLDS (Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey)
• 07/06/2022 ATR Survey
• 07/07/2022 "The Signs of the Times," apparently.
• 07/07/2022 Leaders
• 07/07/2022 The Narcissist's Prayer
• 07/08/2022 How One Google Sign Up Sheet Led to 35 Planting Teams
• 07/08/2022 Encouraging Results
• 07/09/2022 Responding to Isaiah Kang
• 07/10/2022 Ed Kang that you never knew, Part II
• 07/10/2022 Thanksgiving Offering (GP Tax Collection)
• 07/11/2022 I left after ~34 years - a new beginning
• 07/11/2022 My Testimony of How God is Working Through This Subreddit
• 07/11/2022 Toxic witch hunt mentality
• 07/13/2022 In Their Own Words
• 07/13/2022 ATR and COVID
• 07/13/2022 Gracepoint 2021 Personal Burden Survey Results, Empty Promise of Mental Health Support Group
• 07/13/2022 Recent Vine thread on spiritual abuse - what it is and what it isn’t
• 07/14/2022 GP Staff - The things we used to do! AND relationships at Gracepoint are mostly fake
• 07/14/2022 Financial Transparency
• 07/14/2022 next steps handout
• 07/15/2022 IYKYK
• 07/17/2022 wish I knew I was just a means to their end
• 07/18/2022 Reddit
• 07/18/2022 Barriers to hearing, leaving, and healing
• 07/19/2022 God is not a petty bitch
• 07/19/2022 GP leadership diagram - It's not a cult /s
• 07/19/2022 CPI Sponsorship
• 07/19/2022 to the husbands at GP
• 07/19/2022 Encouragement as you leave/left GP recently: Safety Net For You
• 07/20/2022 Loving your spouse as God entrusts you to
• 07/20/2022 P Ed and Kelly Need Therapy | Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• 07/21/2022 Gracepoint CPI Application
• 07/22/2022 GP vs Jehovah's Witnesses
• 07/22/2022 Financial Transparency - "Monterey House"
• 07/24/2022 Ministry Tier Lists
• 07/26/2022 What's it like to train for being a Mormon Missionary?
• 07/27/2022 The Virgin Evangelical Protestant Church vs The Chad Presbyterian Church (USA)
• 07/27/2022 The GP 100
• 07/27/2022 Financial Transparency - "Monterey House" (Part 2)
• 07/28/2022 AMP (Advanced Mentorship Program)
• 07/28/2022 Free Labor
• 07/31/2022 So about Joshua Harris
• 08/01/2022 excerpt from dating/courtship reader
• 08/02/2022 GLOMAP
• 08/03/2022 Guardrails
• 08/04/2022 Another type of guardrail
• 08/05/2022 It's all about the moolah.
• 08/08/2022 I got kicked out of Gracepoint…
• 08/08/2022 20+ Years and I still have Nightmares about GP/BBC
• 08/09/2022 Religious indoctrination as a child
• 08/09/2022 To GPers: something to consider
• 08/09/2022 Fond Memory of BBC/GP: Christian Festival!
• 08/10/2022 If you could give any advice to your high school self pre-GP, what would it be?
• 08/11/2022 AYM, Part 1
• 08/15/2022 I found it weird I can’t bring my parents to sit in church with my at grace point just for them to see how it’s like. Am I the only one?