Author Archives: Paul Kovaks

The Jerusalem Passion (Oratorio)

While writing my post on Murray Wylie, I played his beautiful oratorio on YouTube. At this point of the clip I burst into weeping: I wept for the loss and waste. For Murray and his depression. The lost friends. The remembrance of the purity of that presentation. It’s lost vision. The original promise. Of theContinue reading “The Jerusalem Passion (Oratorio)”

The Curse of the Golden Lampstand (Part II)

Following on from part I, where I covered David Falk, today I want to continue discussing what happened to the three primary messengers to MCF (Melbourne Christian Fellowship) of Vic Hall’s insidious cult teachings. Because all three of them mysteriously disappeared: one fell, one had a nervous breakdown and the other got sacked. And allContinue reading “The Curse of the Golden Lampstand (Part II)”

The Curse of the Golden Lampstand (Part I)

Just a silly title. But it’s true. The three men who most force-fed us the ‘messenger‘ word at MCF (Melbourne Christian Fellowship), in the kindly or most enthusiastic manner, but giving us the least wriggle room to live our lives in, were: David Falk (BCF) Murray Wylie (BCF) Keith Tucker (MCF) followed by people likeContinue reading “The Curse of the Golden Lampstand (Part I)”

Humanity was the forgotten variable at MCF

What MCF (Melbourne Christian Fellowship) forgot, as they taught their new theology and, dangerously, put it into practice, was the human factor. What I mean is that they thought that elders could just tell people to drop all their interests and plans (under threat of going to hell) and that we would all remain saneContinue reading “Humanity was the forgotten variable at MCF”

So, what are we saying MCF?

MCF (Melbourne Christian Fellowship) and BCF (Brisbane Christian Fellowship), you were a standard bearer in the modern day return-to-Biblical teachings move, despite your earlier cultish ways. Come back to Scripture! Give up Vic Hall’s heresies which are simply not in the Bible. We implore you. We miss you. The Body of Christ needs you. ForContinue reading “So, what are we saying MCF?”

The MCF community itself was a utopian society

The cultish MCF (Melbourne Christian Fellowship) congregation, of post-1992, live in a kind of utopian community that we really miss (in addition to the people themselves). The closeness. The sense we were all going through everything together is unmatched by anything else I’ve ever seen or heard about. Except perhaps the early church. Almost everyoneContinue reading “The MCF community itself was a utopian society”

How the cult of 1992 actually began

The cultish new theology all began, as far as I can remember, with a new emphasis on Headship, Family Order and a seemingly innocuous little booklet on Abraham and Sarah from Vic Hall. We had just been doing ‘fatherhood’ with the interim regime for three or four years and it seemed like the next step.Continue reading “How the cult of 1992 actually began”

We were gagged for 25 years

At MCF (Melbourne Christian Fellowship), in addition to controlling our personal lives, they gagged our contributions in church and home groups. The prophecies during ‘body ministry time’ were almost without exception related to the ‘present word’ of that month or year. Does God really work like that? And at home group, on a Wednesday night,Continue reading “We were gagged for 25 years”

How are we supposed to hear from the Lord?

In the aftermath of my leaving MCF (Melbourne Christian Fellowship) in 2016, and its ‘guru headship‘ model of hearing from God, obviously I needed to get back to basics and hear from the Lord the way we are supposed to. Of course I had never stopped praying or reading the Bible. But, as most ChristiansContinue reading “How are we supposed to hear from the Lord?”