Pathway Fellowship

This little church is on the outside a loving bunch of mostly college age kids, living a semi communal life style. The leadership requires blind allegiance to the pastors (a man and woman, not married). While claiming to seek the voice of God in daily life. What actually occurs is control, manipulation, and coercion to foster groupthink. Ask questions and you become the enemy, in fact yet church believes you must be under it’s submission to it, in blind allegiance to and fully trusting the pastor to hear from god for you, speak truth to you, and therefore you need to be indoctrinated in it’s teachings, in particular a book god gave the pastor to write, in order to accurately know and follow Jesus properly. The closest thing I can compare it to it’s the old shepherding movement of the 70’s and early 80’s, with exclusivistic truth claims, God has given us the book, we are the only ones who truly walk in the spirit, all, if not most all other Christians are deceived, etc.) It is important to note also, that they also run a health food company, and pool many followers from the university… many who have not experienced True Christiany. The church is actually legalistic, though it talks about freedom.
I have chosen to remain anonymous because I have a loved one in the group and have been alienated and maligned for holding the views I have observed and heard from former members.

I love the Pastor and the all the members at this church. I live in another state, but always look forward to visiting. Great music talent at this church and great examples of lives living for Christ.

Full Disclosure: I’ve never actually been to this church. But…
I know a few folks who have gone or still go here and from what I’ve seen & heard, they’re a normal, tight-​knit group of people who genuinely care about each other. I listened to the sermons occasionally and they seem pretty legit, too. I have yet to hear anything odd or «cult-​like» as some others have mentioned, but again, I’ve never actually been. As with any church, it might be a good fit for some and not for others… to each their own (cuz, ‘Merica) right?

Just so people know… Some think this is a cult. Just saying so you’re careful if you check it out