Abba's House, Dr. Ron Phillips, and The Silence of the Spirit

By Pamela Alexander

In the nineties, a large church in Hixson, Tennessee called Central Baptist Church began undergoing a tremendous fundamental transformation, engineered by the pastor, Dr. Ron Phillips. The initial stage of that change included driving out the trustees who oversaw the finances of the church, putting Dr. Phillips in control of all monies from thousands of congregants. The theology of the church was altered to conform to an experience that Dr. Phillips claimed to have had while in a hotel room, and the original Baptist beliefs were over-thrown. Dr. Phillips became unapproachable, and he surrounded himself with Assistant Pastors that bahaved more like body guards, and while hundreds of people left Central Baptist on their own, many others were deliberately kickd out of the church by Ron Phillips and his associates. Dr.Phillips's main goal was to build a mega church that conformed to his image: Abba's House. Dr. Phillips began to focus entirely on something called the "annointing" of the Holy Spirit, and he made statements such as, "I am Thee Prophet here, and no one gets a word from God but me!" This is my story, as one kicked out of my church home by Ron Phillips, of how the Holy Spirit was not unleashed at Central Baptist Church after Dr. Phillips's coup. I argue that the Holy Spirit was silenced; Christians were silenced; anyone who disagreed with Ron Phillips was intimidated or cast out in order to silence them. Anyone who spoke up during this time, Ron Phillips called them "out of line."Allow me now to get way out of line with his false teachings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986116971
• ISBN13: 9780986116971
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Glass Page Books
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"