Life inside the Jesus Army cult as Durham man recalls torment of being cut off from the world
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A Durham man has given a harrowing insight into life inside one of the UK’s most notorious cults. John Everett was a member of the Jesus Fellowship Church – known more commonly as the Jesus Army – between 1977 and 1982.
Joining the ‘white-hot’ hub of the JFC, the New Creation Christian Community, members were made to sell their possessions – including former homes – and donate the proceeds to a central community trust fund. The cult, which is the focus of new BBC documentary Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army, claimed to offer a safe haven to members.
John said: “A lot of the bad press we had in the past focused on the fact children used to be rodded. They were given corporal punishment with the use of the birch twig. That was stopped in the 1990s but up until then we were taught if we spared the rod we would spoil the child.
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