He didn't like it -- he told me the Holy Spirit told him to get the hell out of there! I wish I had listened to him. I also visited Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa at times for services. I actually met Chuck Smith and prayed with him. He was kind.
This is one aspect of George's assemblies that I have very rarely discussed but which nonetheless dominates my thinking and assessment of the man and his enablers.
There are a number of specific instances in which I have had conversations with Christians who visited some assembly gathering and never returned.
In an effort to learn from my own mistakes, I always made it a point to press them for the specific reason(s) for their decision.
What was it that you saw that I did not??!!Over the years, an innumerable litany of things have been cited about what was wrong with the assemblies - socially, morally, Biblically etc. etc. etc.
The thing that really startled me though was that without exception, so many of these folk who never stayed around long enough to see any of these aspects of the assembly evils play out nonetheless "got the hell out of there"
They almost without exception cite a sense of spritual darkness, or some warning from the Spirit of God in their swift decision. In one case one brother told me someting that he "saw" that I will not repeat here.
I believe them completely.
Knowing what we know, we cannot conclude otherwise but that the assemblies were places of evil started by an evil man.
Now I know that this will offend some folk who insist on seeing all the "good" that came out of that system.
I have no patience with ostriches.
It is clear to me that it was my own spiritual immaturity, and total lack of spiritual sensitivity and discernment that led me to place myself in that situation.
Those who recruited others into that system and still refuse to admit their complicity in advancing the agenda of an evil messenger will in my opinion never recover from Geftakys' baleful influence.
In one sense, he still owns them.
