Everyone Belongs

Ben and Kami answer more questions about their family shunning, spiritual ex-communication, and losing multiple businesses.  Questions they answer: 

- Were your forced out of the biz for spiritual reasons? 

- Did Colin over find out about the $11,000 that Ben stole? 

 - How many/percentage of individuals/families who have shunned you are either employed by Epipheo, in Family Teams or members of Crossroads Church?  

- Do you think you should mix money and family/friends, money and religion? 

- What does a healthy community look like moving forward? - Were there early warning signs you ignored? 

 - Do you have regrets about your fanatical years or investing so much in the community?

 - How did you get through the loneliness of losing so many people?

 - Have you forgiven those that have wronged you and learned to trust again? 

- Do you feel that the apology letter served its purpose? 

- What’s it like hanging out with friends who give money to family that has hurt you? 

- Are you concerned about backlash? - Do you think Jeremy just wanted control and power? 

- How did people find you to be mentored and/or discipled?

 - Why would Jeremy ask you to “submit” ?  

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We're writing a book (get updates) https://goo.gl/wfaEaY  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyonebelongs 

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RECORDED 12/9/2019

Trauma and Recovery by Dr. Judith Herman

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465061710/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_wEa8DbB2D6MBP  

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 https://www.instagram.com/p/B52ue1ThPL5/  Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeault 

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FB Discussion Group: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/969775533380492/  We're writing a book (get updates) https://goo.gl/wfaEaY 

 YouTube: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/everyonebelongs 

APPLE Podcasts: 

https://apple.co/2NMMq1O SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/32iqgK4 

 FFT (our family channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/FightforTogether 

 Product/book recommendations

 https://www.amazon.com/shop/fightfortogether 

 Thank you for supporting our work! 

 https://www.patreon.com/fightfortogether

 paypal.me/fightfortogether 

Venmo - @fightfortogether 

 CONNECT   

IG: https://www.instagram.com/everyone.belongs/ 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/Everyone-Belongs 

 RECORDED 12/9/2019

Ben and Kami tell the story of going to therapy with family members, getting contacted by lawyers to sell the Christian family biz, their plans to move to Israel, and getting bible verses about Ben deceiving gullible women so he must be shunned by the family.   FB Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/969775533380492/  We're writing a book (get updates) https://goo.gl/wfaEaY  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyonebelongs APPLE Podcasts: https://apple.co/2NMMq1O SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/32iqgK4  FFT (our family channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/FightforTogether  Product/book recommendations https://www.amazon.com/shop/fightfortogether  Thank you for supporting our work!  https://www.patreon.com/fightfortogether  paypal.me/fightfortogether Venmo - @fightfortogether  CONNECT   IG: https://www.instagram.com/everyone.belongs/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Everyone-Belongs  RECORDED 12/2/2019

Ben and Kami share about the 5 accusations made against them by church leaders, the impact of counseling, how they canceled every event and leadership role in their community, the apology letter they wrote, and how it was received. They finish with a cliffhanger story of Ben hearing from his friend at a coffee shop that he's being cut out permanently. 

We're writing a book (get updates)

https://goo.gl/wfaEaY

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyonebelongs

APPLE Podcasts: https://apple.co/2NMMq1O

SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/32iqgK4

FFT (our family channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/FightforTogether

Product/book recommendations

https://www.amazon.com/shop/fightfortogether

Thank you for supporting our work! 

https://www.patreon.com/fightfortogether 

paypal.me/fightfortogether

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RECORDED

Ben and Kami talk about submission and spiritual authority. They talk about the meeting where Ben got ambushed and started the hardest 2 years of their life, what it looks like to get accused of pride and be required to take 2 weeks off work by church leaders.  We also share how ideas of spiritual submission hurt them and how Ben made the worst business decision of his life. 

Part 5 of OUR STORY

We're writing a book (get updates)

https://goo.gl/wfaEaY

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyonebelongs

APPLE Podcasts: https://apple.co/2NMMq1O

SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/32iqgK4

FFT (our family channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/FightforTogether

Product/book recommendations

https://www.amazon.com/shop/fightfortogether

Thank you for supporting our work! 

https://www.patreon.com/fightfortogether 

paypal.me/fightfortogether

Venmo - @fightfortogether

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RECORDED 11/19/19

Ben and Kami tell the story of a midwife miracle, they talk about how they bought three houses to start a commune, how they scheduled 20 meetings a week, practiced 90 days of abstinence, spoke at the fastest growing church in the country, went to Israel with the all-star team, and shared how starting a vlog became the beginning of the end of their Christian community. 

We're writing a book (get updates)

https://goo.gl/wfaEaY

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyonebelongs

APPLE Podcasts: https://apple.co/2NMMq1O

SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/32iqgK4

FFT (our family channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/FightforTogether

Product/book recommendations

https://www.amazon.com/shop/fightfortogether

Thank you for supporting our work! 

https://www.patreon.com/fightfortogether 

paypal.me/fightfortogether

Venmo - @fightfortogether

CONNECT  

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FB: https://www.facebook.com/Everyone-Belongs

RECORDED

Ben and Kami discuss how they got kicked out of their first Presbyterian church, how they got into 12 step groups and what they learned, why they moved across the country to go through the Story Formed Life (a 10-week discipleship program), the impact of Tim Keller, C.S. Lewis, Philip Yancey, and Richard Rohr on their life, and the biggest tragedy of our life. 

We're writing a book (get updates)

https://goo.gl/wfaEaY

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyonebelongs

APPLE Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyone-belongs/id1481984327

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1F3YUXB23nx6Da9Zzekc9L

FFT (our family channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/FightforTogether

Product/book recommendations

https://www.amazon.com/shop/fightfortogether

Thank you for supporting our work!

https://www.patreon.com/fightfortogether

paypal.me/fightfortogether

Venmo - @fightfortogether

CONNECT

IG: https://instagram.com/fightfortogether/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/fightfortogether/

TW: https://twitter.com/fight4together

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RECORDED October 4, 2019

Ben and Kami share about their honeymoon disaster, Kami saying she wishes she would have never got married, getting in an argument with Mark Driscoll and going to Mars Hill, Pastor Tommy getting booted from their presbyterian church, and how Ben started playing blackjack professionally.  This is part 2 of their story for the faith series.

Ben and Kami share their story of faith and religion including going to church, being raised in a pastor's family, going to Bible camp, missions trips, dedicating their life to becoming missionaries and tickling at Bible college. They share about how they got married and struggled with guilt and shame and decided to save their first kiss for marriage but nothing else. This is part 1 of a 4 part series. 

Youtube Podcast: https://youtu.be/Owet9pwfSdU