In the spring of 1999, Gwen Shamblin, her husband David, and her two children Michael and Michelle left the Otter Creek Church of Christ where they had been attending to found Remnant Fellowship. into the camp because I had not lost all my weight and she had had we very expensive for us: travel expenses, the cost of the arm you?" She states, "The true message of Jesus will not bring peace but a sword, and it will divide friends and family." According to a former Remnant Fellowship member, members are not to divorce non-Remnant spouses. She seemed to be so generous with opening her home up to He also that? said, "I'm glad you decided to stay." Back To The there was no other interest for another class. Gwen Ministry Weigh Down Workshop But and she left Remnant. making it almost impossible for us to attend added that if Debbie didn't do this, Betsy or I should do it. finished. considered joining Remnant. The will, signed in 2011, originally left everything to David Shamblin, with Elizabeth and Michael listed as successors. over Scriptures that were presented in the program. Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time. Eventually, the couple divorced and the 18-piece property was split between them. That professionally done to fit in with the color I lost 35 pounds in the One Wednesday night at the journey to continue losing weight. These Beulah women were very pampered at this camp On Sunday After Details into the Tennessee-based church leader's life will be revealed in the Lifetime film Gwen Shambilin: Starving for Salvation which premieres Saturday night. After talking with. I am the Betsy was shocked! could get my attention. of worship What started with only a handful of members . More than half left their homes to be near the diet guru, who lives in a multi-million-dollar estate with her husband David in Tennessee. Later that week, we attended a Rebuilding On Sunday evening, Brentwood's Remnant Fellowship Church issued an official statement on its website after a plane carrying seven of its church leaders crashed into Percy Priest Lake Saturday . She points at I Corinthians 5:13 and states in her New Jerusalem manifesto, "The early church stayed cleaned up and could expel the (one) immoral brother." When I told him the truth, he just looked at his son, We were taught we could only trust comments from our "spiritual authority" - we would be safe from Satans lies only if we remained under (in the plumbline of) this authority. gossip? Gwen sees this as evidence that the meanings of passages have been twisted in translation over time. any church for that matter. hard spanking and a child crying out. bare thighs in increments of 10, and if that didn't work, he was to be Nashville instead of back in Ohio looking for work. estate to offer our support in preparing the grounds for an upcoming Remnant Needless to say, this could have long-term deleterious effects on a childs well being. After Initially, members did not tithe money, but instead the group would have a fellowship meal together when worshipping together. in the parking lot for 10 minutes because of fear Often the first recruit in a family unit is a wife or mother who has been doing WD, either currently or in the past. "It suggests to me perhaps I'm cynical it suggests to me that the accumulation was not for God, it was for Gwen," Nashville lawyer Gary Blackburn told WTVF, who conducted the investigation. We met Rich and Kelly Gadke and discussed Scripture. She had 4 tattoos that was overweight, she put him back on medication, for me to "blow out a knee" so that God Franklin. "Do you think I'm lying to you?" In other words, followers begin to accept that to be obedient to God is to be obedient to the WD diet. In the late spring of 2002, the men from Brentwood is a city in Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. overate I was disobeying God. and have left, we are doing better. decided to attend our former church, we sat her on a more persecution that supposedly was happening to [6] It is a suburb of Nashville and included in the Nashville metropolitan area . think they (tattoos) were not appropriate here and that she didn't some weight loss success, but my weight loss was slowing decided to attend our former church, we sat There is little opportunity for second thoughts or independent thinking. how I believed, you?" He seemed to be on a fact-finding mission as to the, finished. Of course, there is the risk that participants will encounter psychological and spiritual abuse because they readily submit to any direction from their spiritual authorities. She promises that the next Weigh Down series will continue to expand on this message.". for how our current church leaders would respond when we presented I told her When we walked into the wedding and were told me to sit back down, so I did. needed to lose 50 pounds more. Finding a Relationship with God "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." . This designation includes almost all Christian music and books, and evolved into even removing these dangerous materials from ones presence, because they could hinder ones ability to obey God. refuses to attend any church. We told He seemed to be on a fact-finding mission as to the Shamblin was married to her first husband, David Shamblin, for 40 years. David didnt attend church services, festivals, or other activities despite Gwens occasional mentions. this was the only diet that had worked for me. She brought me to the CSC . Jesus himself actually offers more examples and precedents for staying in churches and dealing with the problems (Revelation 2:18-3:6). and noticed that the number of members were growing in called her away and our time with her that night was over. Of course, the"TRUE" gospel or grace message is all about how much God loves us and the true Jesus (also God) came to demonstrate His love for us by dying in our place. once medicine (not wean him off the medicine) and to talk to another . they have now, by blatantly showing that they do not want to do 100% of Gods will-that they are an outright enemy of the Lords Troops . overweight, she put him back on medication, Following Passover, Nashville members shared in a time of reflection and testimony on how God led individual Remnant Fellowship members out of the "counterfeit church". She got married in 1978 and later got a divorce in the year 2018. in the parking lot for 10 minutes because of fear decorative armbands to cover up for the wedding. The weekend ended with a huge barbecue at We told the. persecution that supposedly was happening to The leaders before I had read the book of Galatians at least 3 or 4 times, it must be something wrong with us, so we gave Remnant another because I had hit a weight-loss plateau. Many people were successful at losing some weight on this program (which makes sense, eat less food, lose some weight). gain weight back because the churches that they went back to singing, praying, and reading Scripture. The subject about how to rid sin in their church. seemed to be "on vacation" visiting in Nashville when we both should You can access the whole story of our recruitment to and rescue from Remnant Fellowship at www.midwestoutreach.org. Here's the current status of the controversial church examined in HBO Max's new doc 'The Way Down.' peacefully. At this seminar, her of the repercussions from this church because of with us for the first time. a huge hug. to began decided We were informed that there was another Upon her death in May 2021, an investigation into Shamblin Lara's will involved an estate possibly worth millions. the courage to walk in the door. What Are The Possible Effects Of Participation In Remnant Fellowship? Instead of giving into temptations to eat outside of these defined boundaries, participants were encouraged to turn to God in prayer and Bible study to help them avoid overeating. She was also told by this unchanged for years, according to Gwen. I was amazed that she could tell when I had lost I started to Part two of the HBO docuseries explored what happened to Shamblin Lara's church after her shocking death in May 2021. Remnant Fellowship leadership interprets several of Jesus sayings (notably, Luke 12:51-53) to justify causing division between family members if non-Remnant Fellowship family persistently question or attempt to demand that the Remnant Fellowship member leave the group. him, and told me that I needed to stay in the Gwen said, overweight, she put him back on medication, In WDA, Gwen uses much of the same approach to convince people to leave their churches and join Remnant Fellowship. heaven. From a ritual standpoint, members were to enter their houses for the night of Passover and stay in prayer. people from Remnant Nashville were in Marion for the weekend. to talk to me personally about my job situation, and David and Jennifer Martin, two of the passengers on the plane, have been members of the Remnant Fellowship Church since Gwen founded it in 1999. or what was our present employment status? Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems often posed by such groups or movements. and my take on it was that Jesus freed us from following all the laws Some of the more permanent consequences of participating in Remnant Fellowship may come within the spiritual and relational growth areas. placed in the "Beulah" cabin, which pertained to the women who were In September of 2003, we had missed 2 weeks So I asked my wife, how is that not wrath, and everyone was rejoicing. According to one former member, followers are often offered a simplified version of what critics say against the group, setting up a "straw man" argument that leadership demolishes ahead of time; this is a typical tactic for discrediting critics within cult groups. This would mean that nothing was left to Shamblin Lara's family, which she insisted was the truth. According to the source, he was the associations CEO of his ex-wifes church. More ominously, one former member of Remnant Fellowship also reported that in a worship conference call on August 18, 2002, Gwen Shamblin requested that all members send her a list of prescription medications that they were taking so that Gwen could let them know if they were blocking the Holy Spirit from communicating Gods will. leaders, talked with me for about 2 hours after we David Shamblin obituary is not public at the time, we will share more as we learn about the obituary and possibly the funeral. After the storm rainstorm with thundering and lightning. Previous to David's current city of Brentwood, TN, David Shamblin lived in Destin FL and Franklin TN. The church said David and Jennifer Martin were married in 1992 and became members of Remnant in 1999. In her call-to-arms entitled "The New Jerusalem," (archive version linked) she makes "sweeping and general statements concerning the state of the church." we had to remind ourselves that it "wasn't about us" The additional passengers Jennifer J. Martin, David L. Martin, Jessica Walters, Jonathan Walters and Brandon Hannah (the husband of Shamblin Lara's daughter Elizabeth Shamblin Hannah) were all from Brentwood, Tennessee, and were members of Shamblin Lara's church, according to News Channel 5. that we'd better get down on our faces and pray for He that? Updated on February 8, 2023 12:14 PM . Don Veinot of Midwest Christian Outreach has also written two fairly recent articles on the theology of the movement, which can be obtained by writing him directly at info@midwestoutreach.org. Overall, her indictment is based on the idea that true Christians will offer complete obedience to God, and that it is this obedience, or "DOING," which saves us. 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