![]() The next year’s conference (2020) was online due to COVID 19, and that’s where the trouble began. The men’s leaders and trainers were all men and the genders only came together for the opening and closing events. I was gratified to see that all the training and teaching was biblical and handled according to Scriptural principles. “Four years ago I became the Teaching Leader of a women’s class with Bible Study Fellowship and left for four days of Training in San Antonio under long-time Executive Director Susie Rowan. And this fall, when we are back from our summer break, this listener has graciously agreed to allow us to interview her for a September podcast episode. Michelle and I are thankful that she has agreed to allow us to publish her letter. In an email to A Word Fitly Spoken, she shared with us her experience as a BSF leader, and how the leaven of the modern Pharisees has now encompassed the unbiblical Enneagram (which is pure sorcery and must be avoided), and includes BSF giving women the green light to teach men and having authority over them, something we ought not do. And that’s where one of our listeners – A BSF Teaching Leader – learned the truth about some false teachings that she had been taught and believed. We started that weekly podcast in 2019 to help women understand biblical truth and how to “walk worthy” in a day and age when the lies of the enemy are infiltrating our culture and even our churches. I have shared my experiences and my Gospel testimony many times before, including in the A Word Fitly Spoken podcast that I co-host with my dear friend, Michelle Lesley. It’s now 2023, and BSF has become unrecognizable. The apostasy happened again in 2019! See my article at Naomi’s Table titled, “Vision-Casting” ministry? An open letter from a leader. I shared a letter from a former BSF leader about this in an article titled, BSF Leader resigns warns members about 2018 Study. To my dismay, a new study track was launched in 2018 that revealed BSF International was in fact not interested in Scripture alone as authority. When we moved, I joined BSF in Florida, and later in Wisconsin. I was part of BSF in Minnesota where I was first saved. After all, my eyes had been opened by God’s grace during my first year of learning in this organization back in 1998. I prayed fervently for BSF to turn things around. I loved it, and wish I could still be a part of it, at least the way it was. And there was a strict mandate at BSF: Absolutely NO outside books other than the Bible. At the end of seven years, the studies would start over.īSF was no coffee klatch. Up until 2015, BSF had been solid (as far as I knew), offering a full year of weekly studies for men, women and youth, covering seven subjects: Genesis, Matthew, Life of Moses, Romans, John, History of Israel and the Minor Prophets, and The Acts of the Apostles. They had not heard this was happening, and vowed to keep their local study free of any apostate teachings. At that time I contacted some dear sisters in Christ at my local BSF chapter. I wrote about it in an article titled, BSF, Jesus Calling and a plea from the heart. If you are considering signing up for Fall 2023 at a local Bible Study Fellowship session, this warning is for you.īack in 2015 I was deeply troubled to learn that BSF International, or Bible Study Fellowship, had become infected with New Age teachings at the top level of leadership. Please follow the article links provided. But I love helping Christian women find solid teaching resources, and also warning them about the sand traps in most of the women’s “Bible Study” materials offered in our current time. This is a timeline that I wish I didn’t have to share. on Jin Discernment, Women and the Church 5
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