Brethren church to open in Ipswich
The Queensland Times
AustraliaThe cult Meeting Room in Ipswich, Queensland
The Exclusive Brethren Christian Fellowship will open its doors in Ipswich at the weekend.
Labelled a cult by former prime minister Kevin Rudd in 2007, the Brethren will open its new church at the end of Windle Road, Brassall, on Saturday.
The move has outraged local residents, who say the church is a threat to their way of life.
“We didn’t know we’d end up with a stinking church down there,” said one long-term Windle Road resident, who wished to remain anonymous.
“We don’t need this in our street. I’m really cheesed off about it. The more you read about these people, the more you start to worry about what’s going on.
“I thought about putting my house on the market when I heard about it. You live here, you pay your bloody rates and now a church can come in and do whatever they want.
“It’s been built, it’s opening and that’s it. There’s nothing we can do about it now.”
Workmen were putting the finishing touches on the rendered brick building yesterday.
It is surrounded by a black steel picket fence and has a sprawling car park and landscaped gardens.
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… another concerned Brassall resident who contacted The QT said the Brethren should practice what it preached.
“How can you talk about inclusion when the church hides behind fences and concrete walls? This whole process was kept very quiet,” the resident said.
“You have to wonder what they’re hiding and why more people haven’t been asking questions about the building appearing out of nowhere.
“I don’t think this will go away very quietly.”
Christ’s Apostle, Saul of Tarsus, latterly Paul, a Jew, had unremitting pain at his heart for his own people, Israel.
Believers who are concerned for the blinded of Taylor-Hales fallen-in -the -ditch people , locked in chains of isolation from reality and true Christian living, carry that same burden to the Lord’s Throne of Grace and expect the Sovereign Deliverer to move in secret to set the captives free.
Surely He will overturn and overturn and turn till Christ reigns in their hearts, freed from the total control of dictatorial leadership-do not watch this space-WATCH AND PRAY.
Are these churches open to the public?,In New Zealand we have these strange buildings everwhere.Reading in our local newspaper the local council has down graded there rates rebate from 100% to 50% and theyre fuming .The new rating of D means its not readily open to the public so why shud the ratepayers money pay there rates.I suspect my council is probably the first to change there rating.They have had free rates for 40 to 50 years.Now they pay $8000.The Breathren church has effectively got away with $16 000per year since 1960 when the notice boards came dwn ant the gates started getn locked.That means the council has lost out on $800 000rates from one church alone.How many Brethren churches in New Zealand?Thats a whole lot of rebating.