The entire eighteenth chapter of Leviticus is on nakedness. Although most Christians still consider bestiality as being wrong, they no longer consider homosexuality as being wrong or dressing improperly as being wrong. Many see nothing wrong with dressing scantily. Many see nothing wrong with mixed bathing, yet God calls it an abomination. How many cases of incest have taken place in homes where passions have been inflamed by immodesty among family members? How many boys and girls have been raised in homes that practiced immodest dress and now live lives of promiscuity?
— Gerald B. Collingsworth, Independent Baptist, Right Living is Not Legalism, May 18, 2019
Gerald Collingsworth is the pastor of Heritage Baptist Church (an IFB congregation) in Mogadore, Ohio
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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Invest isn’t caused by a grown-ass adult seeing a young child’s body parts.
Scary that this person is so ignorant. They’ve obviously got a major thing going in their own mind with “immodesty” and so see it everywhere and see it as the cause of everything they most detest.
I have noticed a tragic relationship, a coupling of outright stupidity with delusion. What I wonder is if the stupidity and delusion come first and make Christianity seem okay or are they born in the Christian virus pool, after jumping in… Get baptized and say anything that comes into your head! The Bible supports it all! Gerald B. is about as dim as a light gets before it it is called dead of night. How do you find these people, Bruce???
and somehow Josh Duggar could molest four of his modestly covered sisters.
Thank you for making this info available online. People from this church keep coming to our door and the community isn’t too happy with them because they were approaching children in the parks here in Tallmadge without their parents present and preaching to them. Now that I’m certain what kind of church this is, I’ll answer next time they knock and let them know not to ever come back. There’s no space for bigoted hate mongers in my world. These people are relentless. They come often. I guess their church isn’t doing so great. Also, I’m glad you made it out of that world. Good luck to you ❤️
I attended Heritage years ago for a year. I was familiar with the IFB cult since I was raised in it and went off to the same Cult ‘College’ that preacher graduated from. I went “soul winning” only once with that gorup, though I was familiar with “Go out and bring them to Jesus”, It didn’t feel right to me to push myself onto unsuspecting people who are not in mutual agreement. Kind of like spiritual rape, but notice how he blames incest on innocent children, not the pedophile rapist?!