Koran burning "church"
This entire post is lifted from a comment in Dark Christian:
He's definitely dominionist, and specifically NARasite (basically his church is one of those "independent charismatic" congregations where NARasitism tends to fester).
Not only that, but (in another danger sign) the church was founded fairly recently and started out of a NARasite "cell church" holding meetings in homes (per the About Us page). The site even uses terminology pretty much exclusive to NARasites, and (in a distressing trend) is one of those NARasite groups that seems to especially focus on recruitment of African-Americans.
Even worse, it turns out that Dove World Outreach Center can be considered a direct descendant of possibly the most infamous NARasite group in recent history aside from "Watchmen At The Walls"--one of its original pastors was associated with the infamous Bible-based cult Maranatha (a group that was so extensively abusive with "cell churches" and deceptive recruitment that it has gone through at least two rebrandings after being overtly banned from multiple college campuses; in fact, to this day Maranatha is one of the prototypical examples of a "Bible-based cult"); its present pastor (Terry Jones) has ALSO been heavily involved with Maranantha, including an attempt to plant NARasite churches linked with Maranantha in Germany.
(Yes, you're reading this right--Dove World Christian Center is AT BEST a "Maranantha Daughter", and should probably be considered in truth a one-church rebranded Maranantha (along with Every Nation aka Morning Star International, a much more widely recognised rebranding/"descendant" of Maranantha). We're dealing with what is very close to the bottom of the barrel even with NARasites--about the only way you get WORSE than Maranantha is when one gets into NARasite groups committing frank domestic terrorism like "Watchmen At The Walls" or the Army of God domestic terror network (which largely bases *its* cell network out of NARasite churches).
Even worse, the church runs a "training academy" (in truth a boarding school largely exempted from accreditation due to Florida laws giving a "get out of jail free" card to "faith based children's homes"); there have been reports of extreme coercive activity similar to that at Pensacola Bible College or Teen Challenge or Mercy Ministries facilities including students being almost totally isolated from the community and being essentially forced to work as indentured, unpaid labour for a business owned by the pastor's wife.
TS and Company, a furniture company in Gainesville, is a known funding front (and, of note, the company students at the "academy" are forced to work at unpaid). Much of TS and Company's product is in fact made in conditions that amounts to indentured servitude by church members (and a similar setup occured in Germany); even before the "Qu'ran burning" stuff came up, Alachua County's property assessment office was in fact investigating whether Dove World Outreach Center should have its tax-exempt revoked. (This is a Big Deal--this almost never happens, even with egregrious violations of 501(c)3 status.)
Dove World Outreach Center also is in a very small, very ignominious club of NARasite churches that have actively allied themselves with the "Westboro Baptist" Phelps familial cult in anti-LGBT protests (Assemblies of God churches have occasionally also allied themselves with the Phelps cult in regards to anti-LGBT protests--not surprising as there is official top-level-down support in the denomination for the anti-LGBT hategroup "Watchmen At The Walls").
So yes, we're seeing the previously "private" face of NARasitism in public (and believe you me, if they thought they could get away with it, they'd not just be burning Qu'rans but their readers as well).
(h/t to dogemperor )
He's definitely dominionist, and specifically NARasite (basically his church is one of those "independent charismatic" congregations where NARasitism tends to fester).
Not only that, but (in another danger sign) the church was founded fairly recently and started out of a NARasite "cell church" holding meetings in homes (per the About Us page). The site even uses terminology pretty much exclusive to NARasites, and (in a distressing trend) is one of those NARasite groups that seems to especially focus on recruitment of African-Americans.
Even worse, it turns out that Dove World Outreach Center can be considered a direct descendant of possibly the most infamous NARasite group in recent history aside from "Watchmen At The Walls"--one of its original pastors was associated with the infamous Bible-based cult Maranatha (a group that was so extensively abusive with "cell churches" and deceptive recruitment that it has gone through at least two rebrandings after being overtly banned from multiple college campuses; in fact, to this day Maranatha is one of the prototypical examples of a "Bible-based cult"); its present pastor (Terry Jones) has ALSO been heavily involved with Maranantha, including an attempt to plant NARasite churches linked with Maranantha in Germany.
(Yes, you're reading this right--Dove World Christian Center is AT BEST a "Maranantha Daughter", and should probably be considered in truth a one-church rebranded Maranantha (along with Every Nation aka Morning Star International, a much more widely recognised rebranding/"descendant" of Maranantha). We're dealing with what is very close to the bottom of the barrel even with NARasites--about the only way you get WORSE than Maranantha is when one gets into NARasite groups committing frank domestic terrorism like "Watchmen At The Walls" or the Army of God domestic terror network (which largely bases *its* cell network out of NARasite churches).
Even worse, the church runs a "training academy" (in truth a boarding school largely exempted from accreditation due to Florida laws giving a "get out of jail free" card to "faith based children's homes"); there have been reports of extreme coercive activity similar to that at Pensacola Bible College or Teen Challenge or Mercy Ministries facilities including students being almost totally isolated from the community and being essentially forced to work as indentured, unpaid labour for a business owned by the pastor's wife.
TS and Company, a furniture company in Gainesville, is a known funding front (and, of note, the company students at the "academy" are forced to work at unpaid). Much of TS and Company's product is in fact made in conditions that amounts to indentured servitude by church members (and a similar setup occured in Germany); even before the "Qu'ran burning" stuff came up, Alachua County's property assessment office was in fact investigating whether Dove World Outreach Center should have its tax-exempt revoked. (This is a Big Deal--this almost never happens, even with egregrious violations of 501(c)3 status.)
Dove World Outreach Center also is in a very small, very ignominious club of NARasite churches that have actively allied themselves with the "Westboro Baptist" Phelps familial cult in anti-LGBT protests (Assemblies of God churches have occasionally also allied themselves with the Phelps cult in regards to anti-LGBT protests--not surprising as there is official top-level-down support in the denomination for the anti-LGBT hategroup "Watchmen At The Walls").
So yes, we're seeing the previously "private" face of NARasitism in public (and believe you me, if they thought they could get away with it, they'd not just be burning Qu'rans but their readers as well).
(h/t to dogemperor )