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Isaiah 3: 12: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
Posted : 28 Aug, 2013 06:10 AM

Isaiah 3: 12: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional



"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over

them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy

the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3: 12



"But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work

wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred

up." I Kings 21: 25



"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own

understanding.

6.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

Proverbs 3: 5-6



Christian faith is based upon a belief that God the Father is

sovereign and that his Word is absolute. In order to diminish and

eventually destroy faith, the Christian belief that God the Father is

the absolute patriarchal authority must be done away with. The

patriarchal authority of the husband and father in the family is a

reflection of God's patriarchal authority.



"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the

same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:50



"Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and

we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto

the Father of spirits, and live?" Hebrews 12:9



We have been living in the age of deception for decades, and people have

become used to being deceived, and some even like to be deceived. The age of

deception came on the heels of the rise of the celebrity culture in the U.S..



Before the secular celebrity system spread to politics, sports, the

arts, the military, education,

business and to Christianity, it was confined to Hollywood film stars.

Richard Schickel in his book, Intimate Strangers: The Culture of

Celebrity, 1985, says the celebrity system began in the period of

1895 to 1920 with early Hollywood movie stars. Some of these early

celebrities of film were Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas

Fairbanks and William S. Hart. The American celebrity system

did not really get going until the twenties and it gained momentum right

after World War II.



There are a large number of Christian celebrities of our time, many of whom are

still living. Some include Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell,

Pat Robertson, Kenneth Copeland, Tim LaHaye, Grant Jeffrey, John

Hagee, Robert Schuller, Jimmy Swaggart,

and Hal Lindsey. Almost all of these Christian celebrities teach the

pre-tribulation rapture theory, and that God has two distinct peoples, the Jews and the Church, that

Christians cannot be Israel and that the Jews, saved or unsaved,

remain the chosen of God. Rick Warren is a very important Christian

Celebrity for our time now. The celebrity presents an image, and appearance, a facade, which is

deceptive.



All kinds of deception has been going on, in government,business, education,

the media and in Christianity. A deception which has gone on since at least

the early fifties in this country is that of Transformational Marxism. This is

not the Bolshevism of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. And it has not been called

Marxism. This movement was once called Political Correctness, and it was part of

the Left in the universities. But the movement was bigger that the Leftist Political

Correctness of the seventies and eighties.



Transformational Marxism remains part of the Left, and is associated with the Democratic Party, though bigger than it. There is its counterpart on the

Right, allied with the Republicans, which is the Neoconservative Movement. The Neocons have

not used American psychology as much as the Transformational Marxists and remain more politically oriented, and perhaps are not as decepive as the Transformational Marxists. But they claim to be conservatives though they have a history of being Marxists. The Neocons are more overtly supportive of the Nation of Israel and of Zionism.



The Transformational Marxist Theodore W. Adorno

in his 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, Adorno said that

Christianity and the patriarchal family must be done away with,

because both cause the authoritarian personality and fascism. Being a

Marxist, but not a Bolshevik, Adorno, and his buddies in the Frankfurt

School, had the dialectic mind, and used the dialectic to oppose

fascism, while deceptively promoting their form of collectivism and

totalitarian Marxism. But they didn't call it Marxism, especially not

in the United States. They called it "Democracy," and were perhaps

the forerunners of the present day "Democratic" Party.



"Once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the

heavenly family, the former must be destroyed (annihilated), in theory

and in practice." Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4



�The authoritarian family becomes the factory in which the state�s

structure and ideology are molded.� Wilhelm Reich The Mass Psychology of

Fascism.



�The conception of the ideal family situation for the child:

uncritical obedience to the father and elders, pressures directed

unilaterally from above to below, inhibition of spontaneity and

emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values.� Theodore. W.

Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality



�Psychoanalysis must treat religion as a neurosis.� Norman O. Brown

Life Against Death



�God is conceived more directly after a parental image and thus as a

source of support and as a guiding and sometimes punishing

authority.� Theodor W. Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)



The counterculture of the sixties and seventies introduced a kind of

group think to a generation of Americans and a few born before 1945,

and an ideal of group conformity which was not fully known by those

who took part in this new group think at the time. They were more

interested in becoming "liberated" from the patriarchal family and

patriarchal authority of God in Christianity. But remember the Woodstock Festival in 1969 as the experience of group think, and the many Hippie assemblies to hear rock bands with all the pot smoking.



�The real nature of man is the totality of social relations.� Karl

Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 6



�It is not individualism that fulfills the individual, on the

contrary it destroys him. Society is the necessary framework through

which freedom and individuality are made realities� only in a

socialist society.� Karl Marx



�The individual is emancipated in the social group.� �Freud

commented that only through the solidarity of all the participants

could the sense of guilt be assuaged.� Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death.



�Only within a social context individual man is able to realize

his own potential as a rational being.� Joseph O�Malley Karl Marx

Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'



"One of the most fascinating aspects of group therapy is that

everyone is born again, born together in the group." �Few individuals,

as Asch has shown, can maintain their objectivity [belief in parent or

God] in the face of apparent group unanimity; ...� Irvin D. Yalom

Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy



�The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by

accepting belongingness to the group.� Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne

Human Relations in Curriculum Change



Kurt Lewin was the Marxist social psychologist who began the Group

Dynamics movement, which, among other things, taught the importance of

group cohesiveness in changing human values, beliefs, attitudes and

behavior.



The Group Dynamics movement operated behind the appearance of being

science, that is, experimental social psychology, by guys like Leon Festinger,

Stanley Schachter, Kurt Back and other social psychologists of the forties and

fifties like J.C. Gilchrist at Wisconsin. But Group Dynamics fed into a knowledge

of how to create small groups to be cohesive, and an understanding that in order

to use small groups to change people's beliefs, attituides and behavior, the grooup

must be cohesive. This knowledge was soon used in the encounter group

movement of the sixties and seventies, which got going first in California, but was

led by psychologists like Carl Rogers and William Coulson from the Midwest and the

University of Wisonsin.



"Small groups are the most effective way of closing the back door of

your church." Rick Warren



Rick Warren is not a member of the Frankfurt School or an American

psychologist Transformational Marxist, but is now a leader of the huge

number of false teachers who have changed the Gospel in order to build

huge congregations and the mega church.



Much of American Psychology, especially that which comes out of Freud

or out of behaviorism over-emphasizes and makes all important man's

flesh, and

follows or supports the Transformational Marxist bent which wants to

overthrow God as the Father figure and wants to diminish the family

because the traditional family has been the foundation of

Christianity, and its patriarchal paradigm, "it is written," "two

plus two is always four and cannot be another number," etc.



Psychology exalts the flesh of man, especially man's pride, calling it

self-esteem and self-actualization (Rogers and Maslow), above man

created as a living soul.

Psychoanalysis from Freud stressed the flesh and advocated a revolt

against the Father authority figure. Behaviorism in psychology, from

Wundt, to Watson and to B.F. Skinner with his Skinner box psychology

all pointed toward a reduced man who is nothing but desires, feelings

and conditioning. Wilhelm Wundt did not deal with classical

and operant conditioning as did John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner.

Wundt did early work on sensory psychology, which was another form of

psychological reductionism.

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Isaiah 3: 12: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
Posted : 28 Aug, 2013 08:58 AM

Excellent article -- thank you.



Here are some highlights:

"Christian faith is based upon a belief that God the Father is

sovereign and that his Word is absolute. In order to diminish and

eventually destroy faith, the Christian belief that God the Father is

the absolute patriarchal authority must be done away with. The

patriarchal authority of the husband and father in the family is a

reflection of God's patriarchal authority."



:applause: Amen!! This has been the enemy tactic since the garden of Eden- to undermine the Sovereignty of God. Anything that in any way impugns God's sovereignty is a vile false doctrine straight from the pit of hell. The most common form that this takes is the promotion of the "free will" of man - exalting man's sovereignty. One does not have to look too far to see that where this humanist idea prevails, the families fall apart - the entire familial structure that has been ordained by God is impeached and women and young men become the "lords" and "rulers". Wherever you see this, you see the curse of God being applied.



"Rick Warren is not a member of the Frankfurt School or an American psychologist Transformational Marxist, but is now a leader of the huge number of false teachers who have changed the Gospel in order to build huge congregations and the mega church."



:applause: Amen!! This man is syncretist as are many other false teachers like him. They commingle the profane with the Holy and thereby deceive their hearers with false notions of "love, peace and unity"

But what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?



"Psychology exalts the flesh of man, especially man's pride, calling it self-esteem and self-actualization (Rogers and Maslow), above man created as a living soul."



:applause: Amen!! Humanistic psychology is driving the mind-set of most so-called "Christians" in the churches these days. They have substituted anti-christian principles for Biblical principles - they have exchanged the truth of God for a lie.

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Isaiah 3: 12: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
Posted : 28 Aug, 2013 12:47 PM

Dean Gotcher has studied several psychologists and psychiatrists

who have helped to develop the dialectic which first came from Hegel.

Gotcher has lectures on self psychologists A.H. Maslow and Carl

Rogers, and on psychiatrist and group therapist Irvin Yalom,

Erick Fromm, Norman O. Brown and Herbert Marcuse, who is more like a

sociologist than a psychologist.



Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist who wrote volumes on

the taxonomies of educational goals. His system has been used in the

certification of all public school and other school teachers for

decades. Bloom was a Transformational Marxist who had great influence

on the American education system - and all this could only happen

because American society is organized in a top-down way, so that the

elites at the top have control over the entire society.



Benjamin Bloom, who wrote the two volume book on the Taxonomy

of Educational Goal Objectives, by which all teachers must be

certified, said "�We recognize the point of view that

truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and

fast truths which exist for all time and places.� (Benjamin Bloom, et

al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)



Dean Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational

Objectives Book 2, Affective Domain, on the "Weltanschaaung" or world

view Bloom was following. On

page 166 of this volume Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno

and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology

contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies. Book II

Affective Domain p. 166. Bloom used the German word Weltanschaaung on this

page of his book to refer to the philosophy underlying Bloom's

educational goals.



�1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950� Benjamin Bloom,

Book II Affective Domain p. 166. This is Bloom's footnote

acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and

Theodore W. Adorno. Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who

posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950

book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the

authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and

Christianity. Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist

and close associate of the Frankfurters.



"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for

all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)



For Transformational Marxism and the dialectic mind there are no absolute

truths and no absolute morals. Everything is relative and subject to

dialogue within

the dialectic process, with more emphasis on relationships and

feelings than on truth

or morals.



The present II Timothy type Christian community (II Timothy 3) does not follow Marx in his

rejection of God, but it does make use of the dialectic procedure from

Hegel and Marx and refined by several American psychologists.



Dean Gotcher says the Mega Church movement cannot

exist without the dialectic church. That is, Psychologized

Transformational Marxism invaded the American church a number of decades

ago.



The Transformational Marxists, who were lodged in our major

universities after the Frankfurt School got run out of Nazi Germany,

set out on their "long march through the institutions" soon after the

publication of The Authoritarian Personality (1950) by

Marxist-Freudian Theodore W. Adorno, a Frankfurter. We then got the

counterculture, with the drug and hippie movements at its core and

many allied movements that changed an entire generation, the Baby

Boomers. Some of these allied movements were the homosexual,

feminist, lesbian, and self psychology movements. The drug movement

and the Hippies rejected patriarchal Christianity, especially Christian

morality. But the feminist, lesbian and homosexual movements were more

focused on diminishing the patriarchal American family. These

movements, along with

the self psychology of A.H. Maslow and Carl Rogers, which was brought

into the counterculture, helped greatly to "kill" the American

father figure, and

the leadership of the male in the heterosexual relationship.



About twenty-five years ago the Christian book publishers were

not interested in manuscripts on a Biblical view of the counterculture and

its rejection of Christianity, which we later came to know was associated with Transformational Marxism.. There was no Internet back then, and self-publishing

was only in its very beginning. At that time, the counterculture had been

going on since the early to mid sixties, about 20 years. The Christian book

editors and almost all Christian leaders did not realize then that the

counterculture marked a fundamental shift in thinking, from absolute truth and

absolute morality to a reliance upon relationships, feelings, opinion and group consensus rather than

"It is written." The making of what had historically been a small art, literature and music bohemian subculture into a mass movement which changed millions of younger people was somewhat unique. This bohemian subculture, made into a mass movement, exalted sensuality, or man's flesh.



In addition, remember that starting in the seventies there was something called

the "Me Generation," that is, an entire generation under the influence of self psychology, having

something of the traits and new thinking paradigm of those fewer young people in the counterculture

itself. And all this was to a great extent driven from an elite, or elites, in American society, from intellectuals, especially psychologists, from the major universities, and from avant-garte art, literature and bohemian centers like the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and the Lower East Side bohemian area of New York City. In the Midwest, major watering holes of the counterculture were at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.



Now there are consequences of all this rebellion against the

patriarchal structure of Christianity and the family.



See http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...#ixzz2SeHMQ7eV



"Four years ago, psychologist Leonard Sax (M.D., Ph.D.) wrote a

well-received book titled Boys Adrift. The doctor tried to answer the

question, why have so many young males fallen into passivity and

indifference?.........."Something scary is happening to boys today,"

Sax concluded. "From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on

average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere

twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation

rates has widened dramatically."



The book's full title is Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the

Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men.

Sax lists the five factors right on the cover: "video games, teaching

methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, devaluation of

masculinity."



It's worrisome that he seems to like them all. That might be a clue

that he has not solved this mystery. Indeed, let's consider the

possibility that none of these theories is the deep answer we want.

Let's start from scratch and consider the things we know for sure.



First of all, critics have often noted that schools seem organized

more for girls than for boys...........Consider that all school

activity revolves around two basic skills: reading and arithmetic.

Students spend a lot of each day on these and must learn them in order

to advance to any other subjects. Failure in these two subjects

virtually guarantees failure in all subjects, and in all of life.



Perversely, our public schools, for more than 50 years, have used

dysfunctional methods that virtually guarantee failure for the

ordinary boy."



Remember that Transformational Marxist educational psychologist

Benjamin Bloom was the guy who wrote the books that have been used to

certify all American school teachers since about 1956. Some blame the

problem of dumbing down the American generations born after 1945 on

"Government Schools." It is true that Transformational Marxism got

its foot in the door and then marched fully in with a lot of help from

the federal government. But it was that form of Marxism which didn't

call itself Marxism that has helped to mess up the American boys.



The article above also says "Dr. Sax speaks of masculinity being

undervalued. Maybe it's more directly a case of masculinity hemmed in

and, as the school years pass, neutralized.



Finally. one can never escape the impression that there is

premeditation in all of this." My comment: Right, read Benjamin

Bloom.



There are other reasons for the boy problem. Russell Blaylock, MD, a

former brain surgeon, has articles and youtube videos on how

vaccinations cause brain damage. Here is a 2004 article of Blaylock's

with a huge number of peer review articles on brain damage from over

vaccination. http://www.whale.to/a/blaylock.html



Blaylock says people born before 1945 are less depressed.



It is known that autism, a form of mental retardation, which has

been increasing greatly in the last few decades, affects boys more than girls.

It may be that over-vaccination, which causes brain damage, especially in some

people, may have a greater effect on the male population than on girls.



And -there has been changes in the American diet, and addition of more toxins,

which result in lower levels of testosterone in the younger

generations, in both males and females. But this lowering of testosterone

in boys, especially teen age boys, is likely one factor in the boy problem

that Dr.Sax wrote about. Testosterone not only has some benefits for the heart,

but it also benefits the brain and brain functions like memory.

Studies show that attention, memory, and spatial ability are cognitive

functions affected by testosterone levels in humans. And -

testosterone

levels in boys may be important for early learning.



On the site



http://www.ane.pl/pdf/7147.pdf



It is said that:



"Men with

Alzheimer disease have lower testosterone levels prior

to their diagnosis in comparison to controls (Hogervorst

et al. 2003)."



"Low estradiol concentration and high testosterone levels despite older age predict a better cognitive performance in men ((Martin et al. 2009)."



http://myctm.org/new/optimum-testosterone-levels-give-men-the-mental-edge/



"Researchers in the Rancho Bernardo study measured both testosterone and estradiol levels in over 500 men between the ages of 55-89 who were not receiving hormone replacement. Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor and her colleagues at the University of California then compared estrogen and testosterone levels with the men�s cognitive performance on various standardized tests.



First, they found that men with lower estrogen levels performed better on two commonly used cognitive function tests. It is interesting that while the sex hormone estrogen is associated with positive cognitive effects in women, it appears to have a reverse effect on men."



"Second, they found that men with moderately high levels of bioavailable testosterone scored significantly better in long-term memory and mental control. This relationship was independent of age, education level, alcohol use, and other possible factors influencing cognitive function."



http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/how-testosterone-may-alter-the-brain-after-exercise/



"It�s widely accepted among scientists that regular exercise transforms the brain, improving the ability to remember and think." A study on rats found that testosterone levels in the brain increased after exercise. There is likely another factor, in addition to changes in the standard American diet, and addition of more toxins, which can reduce testosterone levels in young men. Lack of regular exercise can probably also lower testosterone levels in young guys.



Testosterone is produced from cholesterol - and less harmful fats should be consumed, especially from from sources like fish, flax seed, avocados, nuts, coconut oil, olive oil, and organic meats (no GMO fed beef). A diet high in refined sugar, high in carbohydrates, and low in magnesium, zinc, vitamin D, and perhaps vitamin C can result in lower testosterone levels even in young men. LDL, or low-density lipoprotein, is �bad� cholesterol because it can build up in the walls of your arteries and create plaque. Plaque build-up in the arteries can reduce blood flow and increase risk of heart disease. On the other hand, HDL, or high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, is "good" cholesterol because it does not cause build up up plaque in the arteries. And HDL cholesterol can removes LDL or "bad" cholesterol. Omega 3- fatty acids increase levels of HDL, for example, from fish, flaxseed, nuts or avocados, etc.



See Travison, TG, AB Araujo, AB O�Donnell, V Kupelian, JB McKinlay.

2007. A population-level decline in serum testosterone levels in

American men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

92:196�202.



"In one of the largest studies of its kind, Travison et al. report a

population-wide decline in Massachusetts's men�s testosterone levels

during the last 20 years...............Recent studies have that found

environmental impacts on testosterone levels. For example,

testosterone levels were lower in US Air Force veterans exposed to

dioxins while spraying Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, as well as

in men exposed to phthalates at work..........................Lower

concentrations of testosterone can increase a man�s risk for

age-related diseases, depression and infertility. " There are a huge

number of toxins in the food, water and air, some of which may reduce

testosterone levels.



Christina Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author and former

philosophy professor who wrote the book, The War Against Boys:

How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men (revised 2001).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers



"She describes "gender feminism" as having "transcended the

liberalism" of early feminists. Instead of focusing on rights for all,

gender feminists view society through the "sex/gender prism" and focus

on recruiting women to join the "struggle against patriarchy."[16] A

reviewer of Who Stole Feminism characterized gender feminism as the

action of accenting the differences of genders in order to create what

Sommers believes is privilege for women in academia, government,

industry, or the advancement of personal agendas"



"Sommers wrote in The Atlantic, about her own book The War Against

Boys, that misguided school curriculum, based on flawed research, is a

likely cause for many problems in education including the falling

reading scores of lower-school boys. Sommers writes that there is an

achievement gap between boys and girls in school, and that girls in

some areas are achieving more than boys. She writes, "Growing evidence

that the scales are tipped not against girls but against boys is

beginning to inspire a quiet revisionism. Some educators will admit

that boys are on the wrong side of the gender gap."[19] Writing for

The New York Times, Richard Bernstein wrote of The War Against Boys,

"Observations like that lift Ms. Sommers's book from polemic to

entreaty. There is a cry in the wilderness quality to her book, a

sense that certain simple truths have been lost sight of in the smoky

quarrelsomeness of American life. "



My Comment: The "smoky quarrelsomeness of American life" describes

the current obsession of American culture with the use of the dialectic and suggests America is run by the dialectic mind.



"Sommers is a longtime critic of Women's Studies departments, and of

university curricula in general. In an interview with Scott London,

Sommers said, "The perspective now, from my point of view, is that the

better things get for women, the angrier the women's studies

professors seem to be, the more depressed Gloria Steinem seems to get.

So there is something askew here, something amiss."[25] According to

The Nation, "Hoff Sommers carefully explains to the students that much

of the fault for this unfortunate phenomenon [of "pathologizing

maleness"] lies with women's studies departments. There,

'statistically challenged' feminists engage in bad scholarship to

advance their liberal agenda."

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Isaiah 3: 12: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
Posted : 28 Aug, 2013 01:19 PM

"For Transformational Marxism and the dialectic mind there are no absolute truths and no absolute morals. Everything is relative and subject to dialogue within the dialectic process, with more emphasis on relationships and feelings than on truth or morals."



Sounds like the modern church platform. This dialectic thinking is the driving impetus behind "relational evangelism"

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Isaiah 3: 12: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
Posted : 28 Aug, 2013 02:01 PM

"Sounds like the modern church platform. This dialectic thinking is the driving impetus behind "relational evangelism" "



Right.



Dean Gotcher said that when he spoke to groups which included preachers many of them would say "You have just gone too far."



Dean Gotcher is a combination of scholar and preacher, and he is capable of preaching, and does sometimes preach, as well as talking about Transformational Marxism and the American psychologists who have worked with the original Frankfurt Marxists.



Gotcher said many of the preachers told him that they must dialogue with people, which means they engage in the dialectic form of quarreling.



He is still sometimes invited to speak in very small churches, but not in larger churches where he is not welcome. He spoke at the Victorville Valley Bible Church in California in February of 2013. But most of the time when Gotcher is on the road he speaks in private homes or in rented rooms like in motels. He spoke to a non-church small group in Medford, Oregon on February Feb 29, 2013.

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