Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast, where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of

historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with

clarity, kindness, and truth. And I've just gotten off a call with the

authors of a book called A Matter of Basic Principles and it's

basically about Bill Gothard and his cultist teachings. So I've just talked

with Don Vino and Ron Henzel who wrote this book about 20 years, but it just had an update with a new forward by Ginger Dugger Voolo.

Now, many of you may recognize that name because I did a podcast episode with Ginger and

Melissa Doherty, where we talked through her story of coming out of the

unbiblical teachings of Bill Gothard. Now the Bill Gothard teachings have been very influential

in evangelical culture for the last few decades and so

this is an important episode for us to understand maybe how those have infiltrated

the church and how we can spot them and I loved all the practical things we talked about.

One of the highlights of today's episode for me

was when Ron talked about how sometimes cults

have evangelical statements of belief, and that can be very disarming for Christians who think oh they're checking the right boxes doctrinally but then there's this authoritarian side

and there can be high control and things like that so So we talked through that, we talked through the pillars

of the Bill Gothard teachings and how that has really infiltrated

a lot of Christian homes and churches

through homes school curriculums.

And we talked about the continued influence of Bill Gothard

and his teachings and what we can be looking out for. So this is an important

episode. I also want to encourage you to go back into the archives and listen to that

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