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This photo from Norway does not depict Roman Catholic nuns. It also does not depict conservative Muslim women, or ultra orthodox Jewish women. It depicts female members of the Brunstad Christian Church, in religiously ordained ‘modest’ clothes.
BCC (Brunstad Christian Church) Cult 'Our website was created with the express purpose of supporting individuals who have lost close family members and friends to the poison BCC preaches. Our families have been torn apart, our children molested and abused, and our faith tested beyond comare. The church’s interest in the location has been to ensure that there is a place for gathering for international Christian conferences, but has not had any intention of owning or operating such a large estate. All of the Brunstad Foundation’s funding from BCC local churches will be repaid by 2027.
The Brunstad Christian Church are a fundamentalist, homophobic group. In the Netherlands, there are recent reports about financial fraud, child labour and tax dodging in this church.
They have controversies in Norway, where their international headquarters is, as well.
Translated from the Norwegian construction industry Internet site Bygg.no:
Struck by 1.8 ton beam during voluntary work for Smith’s Friends – allegedly had 35 workers on long-term unpaid contracts
11 December 2015
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A German volunteer worker suffered fractured vertebrae after a work accident on a billion krone project of Brunstad Christian Church in Vestfold province. Both he and 34 other people from all over Europe were on long-term volunteer contracts for the Smiths Friends’ company Ryenstubben 2 [in Oslo].
Before Christmas last year Byggeindustrien magazine wrote a series of articles about a number of companies associated with Brunstad Christian Church (BCC) – also known as Smith‘s Friends – who earn millions on commercial assignments carried out by volunteers.
Seven volunteer based building industry companies have been looked at, they had revenues of around 180 million krone over the past five years. The building industry also knows about even more volunteer companies associated with the church.
On the basis of the articles the Labour Inspectorate audited one of the companies – Fjord Team AS.
In the years between 2009 and 2014 Fjord Team, owned by BKM Sandefjord, had a turnover of nearly 50 million.
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A large part of the revenues were derived from the sale of five villas where construction work had been done by volunteers.
The Labour Inspectorate concluded recently that the company has broken the Working Environment Act, and has imposed on Fjord Team to pay workers who work within the generally applicable areas the minimum wage.
The church also has over 102 children’s, sports and youth organizations, each of which can do volunteer work for many millions of tax-free money.
‘Religious’ child labour is not just a problem in the Brunstad Christian Church. It exists in the Church of Scientology (which, according to critics, is more of an exploitative corporation than a real church) as well.
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File:Brunstad Christian Church organizational logo.JPG | |
Orientation | evangelical, non-denominational |
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Leader | Kåre Johan Smith |
Geographical areas | Worldwide |
Founder | Johan Oscar Smith |
Origin | 1905 Horten, Norway |
Congregations | more than 220 |
Members | more than 30,000 |
Brunstad Christian Church is a worldwide evangelicalnon-denominational Christian church. Established in Norway early in the 20th century, the group now has more than 220 churches in 65 countries.[1] The Norwegian researcher Knut Lundby has estimated that in the late 1990s, its membership was at 25,000 to 30,000 and growing.[2] As many as two thirds of its members live outside Norway.[3] For many years the group did not have a formal name and was referred to as Smith's Friends, particularly in Norway.[4]
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History
Johan Oscar Smith (1871-1943), the church's founder, was originally a member of the Methodist church. After a religious conversion in 1898 Smith began preaching to small gatherings.[5] In 1905, his brother Aksel Smith (1880-1919) joined him. Smith had early contact with the Pentecostal movement in Norway and Aksel Smith cooperated with Thomas Ball Barratt during the first few years after Barratt introduced Pentecostalism to Norway in 1906-1907.[3] As both the Pentecostal movement and Smith's group developed, they became increasingly wary of each other, with Barrat accusing Smith of creating schism within his group, as some of his followers joined Smith.[6] During the following years both groups wrote and published articles against the other.[3]
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In 1908, Johan Oscar Smith met Elias Aslaksen (1888-1976) while serving in the Norwegian Navy. Under the leadership of Johan Oscar Smith, Aksel Smith, and Elias Aslaksen the group began to grow quickly.[1] During World War I, Smith, as a Naval officer, partook in patrols of the Norwegian coast. During this time, he had contact with believers and churches were established in several Norwegian coastal towns.[1] During the 1930s churches were established in inland Norway, most notably in Hallingdal and Valdres.[1] During this period, congregations were also established in Denmark.
From the 1950s, the church began to spread throughout Western Europe, most notably in Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands, after several church leaders were invited to participate in the Pentecostal conferences held at Leonberg during the 1950s.[citation needed] In the 1960s and 1970s, the Brunstad Christian Church spread further to Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, North America, Australia, Africa and Asia.[1] Churches were first established in South America in the 1980s.[citation needed]
Today, there are more than 220 congregations in more than 65 countries. The church has annual international conferences at Brunstad Conference Center and regional conferences throughout the world.[1] It has its own publishing house, Skjulte Skatters Forlag, publishing books and distributing audio-visual media intended for spiritual edification. The monthly journal Skjulte Skatter, ('Hidden Treasures') has been published every month since 1912.[1]
Organization
Brunstad Christian Church is an association of some 220 churches worldwide. The church has no ordained clergy and few members have any theological training.[1] The church keeps no official membership register. Leaders are appointed in each local church congregation on the basis of their perceived virtue, the confidence of members in the individual and their natural abilities.[1] There are no elected leaders. When Johan Oscar Smith died in 1943, overall leadership of the church passed to Elias Aslaksen, followed by Sigurd Bratlie in 1976 and Kåre Johan Smith in 1996. The church is non-denominational and has little formal association with other churches.[4] Dwg trueview italiano 64 bit gratis.
Teachings
Brunstad Christian Church places its basis of faith in the New Testament and the belief that the Bible is the word of God. The fundamental elements of their faith are: faith in Jesus as God's son, faith in the Holy Spirit, forgiveness of sin, baptism and the Lord's Supper.[7] They believe that the forgiveness of sins is undeserved and by received through Divine grace when one believes in Jesus Christ.[8] They practice the Baptism of adults by complete immersion into water.[9]
Parts of the church's basic view correspond with traditional conservative Christian theology.[citation needed] As an evangelical church, The Bible is central and believed literally. Books and writings by past and present elders in the movement are held in high regard within Brunstad Christian Church.[10] The most central internal publications are the monthly magazine, Skjulte Skatter and Smith's Letters, a collection of letters written byJohan O. Smith, mostly to his brother Aksel and Elias Aslaksen.
The church claims to differ from other non-denominational evangelical groups through its belief that Jesus not only died to bring forgiveness of our sins, but that He was also tempted to sin just like every human being. The church teaches that Jesus' victory over sin as a human being is the basis for personal victory over sin and transformation into Jesus image for believers, which is defined as the process of sanctification.[11] An analysis undertaken by Geir Lie investigates the extent to which the theology of Brunstad Christian Church was influenced by the Keswick revival at the turn of the 20th century and by individuals such as Madame Guyón and Jessie Penn-Lewis.[3]
Mission
Brunstad Christian Church is actively engaged in missionary and humanitarian work around the globe.[12] According to their official website, they are careful not to mix their missionary work and humanitarian aid in an effort to ensure that people are not influenced to a particular teaching or religion simply by the material goods the missionaries have to offer.[12] Moreover, the church states that it believes in 'preaching the gospel without necessarily giving people hope of better living conditions' and, for this reason, 'channel money or material goods through social or public organisations where distribution of goods takes place according to need, and not according to religious persuasion'.[12]
Over several decades, the church has driven the mission work in this way, contributing millions of dollars, among other places, behind the “iron curtain” before it fell. They have traditionally been a tentmakers mission, where the missionary who has been sent out takes up regular employment in the area they are posted. This has resulted in the establishment of several businesses in developing countries, which have been used as an economic foundation for mission work.[citation needed] In countries with a high unemployment rate, it is common that members of the church work for these companies.[citation needed] Among these countries are Russia and Ukraine. The Christian Church is in the process of building conference centers in several foreign countries. As of January 2008, conference centers were under construction in India, Romania, Kenya, Ukraine and Cameroon.[13] In southern Germany they have also started a mission project where they meet people out in the streets and invite them to their gatherings.[14]
The A-team
The A-team – established in April 2002 – was started in connection with the expansion of Brunstad, and is a team of workers made up, for the most part, of youth belonging to local fellowships within the church, from all over the world. The young people who come are in their late teens or early twenties. These workers enlist to the A-team voluntarily and the length of time they stay is up to the individual, although staying for one year is normal. The A-team is composed of young people from all over the world and many different cultures. The A-team’s first task was to expand the Brunstad Conference Center. After the expansion of Brunstad was finished, the main task of the A-team was to maintain the place, host different events and complete various other building projects on the site. The A-team has also spread to other parts of the world, including Hamar and Stord, in Norway; The Netherlands, Finland, Mexico, Russia, China, South Africa, North America and Ukraine.[15]
References
- ↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.8Official website, Brunstad Christian Church
- ↑ Knut Lundby, Religion, medier og modernitet. Kommunikasjonsmønstre i sekt og kirke i en norsk kommune, Sosiologisk tidsskrift 4 (1996), p.266
- ↑ 3.03.13.23.3The Christology Among Smith's Friends: A Misunderstood Impulse from the Keswick Tradition?, Lie, Gier, Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 7:2 (2004), p.305
- ↑ 4.04.1 Lowell D Streiker, Smith's Friends: A Religion Critic Meets a Free Church Movement, Praeger Publishers, 1999
- ↑ Kjell Arne Bratli, The Way of the Cross: An Account of Smith’s Friends. p.34-38.
- ↑ Article by Nils Bloch-Hoell, (translated as The Pentecostal Movement: An Analysis of Its Origins, Development and Characteristics with Particular Emphasis on Its Appearance in Norway), Oslo Universitetsforlaget, 1956
- ↑'Our faith'. Brunstad.org. http://www.brunstad.org/en/Our-Faith/. Retrieved 2008-05-19. – in the introduction
- ↑'The Forgiveness of Sins and Victory over Sin'. Brunstad.org. http://www.brunstad.org/en/Our-Faith/The-Forgiveness-of-Sins-and-Victory-over-Sin.aspx. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ↑'Baptism'. Brunstad.org. http://www.brunstad.org/en/Our-Faith/Baptism.aspx. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ↑'Theology'. Brunstad.org. http://www.brunstad.org/en/Our-Faith/Theology.aspx. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ↑ Steinar Moe. Hva lærer Smiths venner? ISBN 82-7911-038-0
- ↑ 12.012.112.2'Preaching the Gospel'. Brunstad Christian Church. http://www.brunstad.org/en/Missionary-Humanitarian-Work/Preaching-the-Gospel.aspx?v=10. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ↑'Mission/Humanitarian Work'. Brunstad.org. http://www.brunstad.org/en/MissionHumanitarian-Work/?trg=MainPage_5752&MainPage_5752=5796:0:10,984.
- ↑'Missionary Work in Southern Germany'. Brunstad.org. http://www.brunstad.org/en/Germany/Missionary-Work-in-Southern-Germany.aspx?trg=MainLeft_5796&MainPage_5752=5796:0:10,1349&MainLeft_5796=5010:20394::0:5790:2:::0:0.
- ↑'The 'A-team'. Brunstad.org. http://www.brunstad.org/en/Brunstad-Conf-Center/The-A-team.aspx?trg=MainLeft_5796&MainPage_5752=5796:0:10,981&MainLeft_5796=5010:21510::0:5790:1:::0:0.