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Bethel Closed The BSSM Alumni Group!

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4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Bethel Church has shut down the BSSM Alumni Facebook Group — a 5,000+ member community where former students had been raising concerns, sharing experiences, and asking for accountability. Now Bethel has issued a public statement. We read it. We talked about it. And we're not going to pretend it doesn't raise serious questions. To be clear, we're continuationists. We believe in the ongoing work of the Spirit. We want Spirit-filled churches to thrive, which is exactly why we care when transpar...

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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the wonderful world of remnant radio. As many of you know, the alumni page at Bethel

0:45.6

Church in Reading, California has been really the source of a lot of Bethel's change. There was a lot of

0:53.2

critiques publicly of having Kenneth Copeland coming

0:55.9

to their church there in the alumni group. When the accusations about Chris Reed began,

1:01.7

not Chris Reed, but Sean Bowles begin to emerge, hey, the first people to speak up about that were

1:06.4

there on the alumni page. The alumni page has been a really great space for Bethel to hear from its own students

1:13.5

and to model change in their behavior.

1:16.6

But recently, the alumni page has been shut down by Bethel Church in Reading, California.

1:22.6

What does all this mean?

1:23.5

That's what we're talking about on this episode of the Remnant Radio.

2:01.1

Guys, thank you so much for tuning back into this episode. Man, we are continuationist. We're not ugly towards people that we disagree with. We're not saying, hey, look at all these charismatics over here. They're crazy. I don't know what they're doing. We're going to be hyper-critical of them. No, we're continuationist. We're charismatic. We disagree with a lot of the theological implications of what is taught over at Bethel. But we, in some sense, our cousins in that, like, hey, we share some theological beliefs about the continuation of spiritual gifts. So this video is not coming from a place of bitterness or ugliness just to say, hey, this is probably not a great thing.

2:05.3

We've got this letter, that letter, strong word, public post from Bethel Church and Reading about their alumni page after that has been shut down recently.

2:09.8

So that's kind of a bummer.

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