Change. You cannot grow without change. Without the process of transition, evolution, adaptation and division, cells cannot grow into living beings. Division, then, is not always a bad thing. Division is necessary for growth and is part of every healthy group. And so “you be friends” is changing yet again. Here are some updates as to what is going on with our virtual community.
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Stop the UBF Campus Shepherding
There are “campus shepherds” on over 300 colleges and universities from a new religious group called University Bible Fellowship.
We, the undersigned, call on the leaders of the UBF shepherding system to stop the following:
Introducing WikiShepherd
By now, our ubfriends readers know that several things are needed in order to understand the ubf organization. UBF is anything but a normal, maintream Christian ministry. They are abnormal, with theology that lives in the space where hyper-evangelicalism meets Buddhism. UBF has a special insider language, a specific heritage they want to defend, and an overly demanding lifestyle they place on members. If you are going to sign your life away with the new UBF covenant of membership, I think you should be aware of the UBF teachings, doctrine, dogma and language. Especially, the UBF arranged marriage practices and marriage training, called “marriage by faith“, ought to be publicly documented. So we are building a Wiki just for untwisting and understanding shepherding ideology, as practiced by UBF. Not much is published yet, but there is much more to come. Anyone is free to create an account an edit using the Wiki, which is the same software used by Wikipedia. Here is the link: WikiShepherd
Discern. Defend. Deliver.
“I am not going to join your Bible cult!” The words sting. My heart races. I smile weakly and walk away. That was my last encounter while fishing on campus for someone to be part of the kingdom of priests and holy nation. What is fishing, you may be asking? What is a kingdom of priests? Good questions. Fishing is the insider language we used at a Korean campus organization called University Bible Fellowship (UBF). Fishing is the group’s interpretation of what Jesus meant when He told His followers they would become “fishers of men” (see Matthew 4:19). The idea was to go fishing on campus. It meant a weekly or daily excursion walking around a college campus and inviting students to Bible study. We had the holiest of intentions in doing this. The fact that I need to translate what I used to do on campus speaks volumes as to why I wrote this book. My hope is that current members will be reading this, and so I begin with some thoughts for them to consider.
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The ubfriends Archive
Hey everyone, I have finished another project related to this website. I have archived all content from the old website and redirected ubfriends.org to automatically route to our new site here (ubfriends.net). The link is on the right side bar. The archive captures the discussions and articles from 2010 to 2015. This project now preserves the discussions sparked by the fourth collapse of the UBF group.
Fighting Against Anti-Members
Hey everyone, it appears I’m in a war. If you thought the ubf group would just ignore all my books and all our ubfriends comments and articles, you were wrong. They have been harmless to me so far, but that may be changing. Check out the new UBF Web Management Committee Report. Here is my reaction.
Job Opening!
Hey I thought I would help out the Washington ubf chapter in their ultra-exciting job search! Yes that’s right folks, the Chapter Director is stepping down, because, well he has just been so successful. Here are more details about the job.