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I am Francis. I am a Sufjan Stevens enthusiast and I spend too much time reading. I am a disciple of Christ. I desire to be a prophetic voice. I long to equip the saints and be used for the unity of the Bride. And at the end of the day, all I am is His.

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Feb. 2007 - The Amnesty Ceremony Thousands of Unification Church members from all over the Northeast gathered together in February 2007 to have their sins completely erased. Of course, the fee for to have our sins erased was over a hundred dollars. “Never again will you have such an opportunity”, we were told. You see, in Unificationism, you may be forgiven by God, but your sins will eternally scar you. So when information on the amnesty ceremony came out, many former or distant members began turning back to the Unification Church in hopes of starting their lives over. I remember that weekend very well. We began in prayer. Ceremony after ceremony was done, with speeches in between. Dae Mo Nim, the spiritualist who we were told goes to Hell every weekend to save the ancestors we paid to liberate, came. She gave a long speech and ranted about the importance of purity. One speaker told us of the Spirit World. He told us that in the next world, 3 generations of families shall share a bed and there couples will have sex in front of their parents with no shame. Things only got more bizarre. We began to beat evil spirits out of our bodies. In this picture here, I was about to lead the session of “ansu”. I would give instructions through dancing and singing on what body part to hit. I had bronchitis and the flu, but I screeched away on the microphone with much zeal.  I was a wild one back then. If you only knew what I was like. Somehow I came to know Jesus. Somehow I came to know true forgiveness. Thank God for grace.

Feb. 2007 - The Amnesty Ceremony

Thousands of Unification Church members from all over the Northeast gathered together in February 2007 to have their sins completely erased. Of course, the fee for to have our sins erased was over a hundred dollars. “Never again will you have such an opportunity”, we were told. You see, in Unificationism, you may be forgiven by God, but your sins will eternally scar you. So when information on the amnesty ceremony came out, many former or distant members began turning back to the Unification Church in hopes of starting their lives over.

I remember that weekend very well. We began in prayer. Ceremony after ceremony was done, with speeches in between. Dae Mo Nim, the spiritualist who we were told goes to Hell every weekend to save the ancestors we paid to liberate, came. She gave a long speech and ranted about the importance of purity. One speaker told us of the Spirit World. He told us that in the next world, 3 generations of families shall share a bed and there couples will have sex in front of their parents with no shame. Things only got more bizarre. We began to beat evil spirits out of our bodies.

In this picture here, I was about to lead the session of “ansu”. I would give instructions through dancing and singing on what body part to hit. I had bronchitis and the flu, but I screeched away on the microphone with much zeal. 

I was a wild one back then. If you only knew what I was like.

Somehow I came to know Jesus. Somehow I came to know true forgiveness. Thank God for grace.

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  1. kevinpriest said: this is really fucking scary
  2. loveismycommandment reblogged this from classyliving and added:
    My brother, if you had never left...never have encountered
  3. mayhopearise said: wow. wow. wow. wow. i love you, brother. and i get you for forever with our Jesus! amen!
  4. sketchmedesire said: I love you Francis. The story God has given to you is incredible.
  5. classyliving posted this

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