You must reject church membership

Andrei Shybanov
6 min readOct 17, 2020
Church building or temple

Email to believers in Dubai

You must reject the church membership because the membership status is a tool used by church leaders to enslave you.

Jesus Christ, apostles and other disciples have never spoke of the membership status, they have never been members themselves, but church leaders give this status to those who please them.

In my ebook titled Antichrist, I have revealed the Antichrist among you: bible talk and church leaders. Just like devil mimics God, so do the bible talk and church leaders. As God gives Holy Spirit to those who pleases Him, so the church leaders give membership status to those who please them. As Christ possess a scroll with the names of the chosen people written in it, so the church leaders possess a list with members written in it.

…Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals. — Revelation 5:5

When church leaders gave you the membership status, you became their own. From that time, you were not allowed to fellowship with other believers apart from members; you were required to give your money offerings to church leaders, chose a spouse from members and praise church leaders for their sermons.

Cris Reyes has told me in the private conversation, that when someone gets studied bible and baptized by church leaders, he agrees with their rules and bound by it. This is not true. When you are baptized, you are not bound to follow the rules of bible talk and church leaders, but you are required to follow the teachings of Christ.

Andrew Moreno has told me in the private conversation, that each church has its own traditions, just like each family have their own traditions. This is also not true. Jesus Christ has given His life in the fight against traditions of men, so His people are never obliged to follow the traditions.

Bible talk and church leaders have given you the status of the member with the purpose for you to listen and obey them alone. Arun has told me in the private conversation that the opinion of a member matters, but non-member has nothing to say with regards to the church life.

Jude, who currently leaves in Abu Dhabi, has been born into community. He asked me in the private conversation whether it is allowed to read books written by non-members. I have taught him that it is allowed to read books written by non-members. In fact, members will only write and teach what church leaders approve but disciples of Christ will teach what Christ inspired them with.

There is a difference between church members and disciples of Christ. Disciples of Christ has the mind of Christ, but church members have the mind of church leaders:

“ For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. -1 Corinthians 2:16

Neither Jesus Christ nor apostles ever appointed any church leaders (leading is a gift), but your church leaders have appointed themselves. For example, Andrew Moreno has been appointed by other church leaders in Manila and sent to lead the members in Dubai. Church leaders and Christ can never have any agreement, just like there is no agreement between darkness and light. They cannot coexist together.

Jacob has written an email to you on 5 November 2019 stating the below:

I would like us to take note of the letter recently sent to this particular group by an ex-member of the church… Selective grouping and writing such inflammatory letters is exactly why we had to take the ultimate steps of ‘disfellowshipping’ the brother…. Please feel free to write me personally if you need any further personal clarifications.

He calls my emails “inflammatory”, but these are just empty words. Jacob divides people based on their status: member, non-member and ex-member. According to Jacob, you should never listen to the revelations and reasoning of non-members but must adhere only to church leaders. Jacob also writes about “disfellowshipping” which is the “excommunication” practice of Catholics. Why he also calls me “brother”, when I am obviously not their brother? My brothers and sisters in Christ are those who do the will of the Father, not bible talk and church leaders along with the rest of members.

Church leaders have divided people based on membership status to control them. It is easier for them to say, “Don’t listen to non-members”, then convince you of what is right. In fact, how they can convince of what is right, when there is no truth in them? They only mislead you.

Arun has written me that elders have been appointed by God and they are at the top of church hierarchy:

Bro, even the early first century churches had Elders, Priests, Ministers, Overseers and Deacons. So, why not now? We need to respect the authority of the Elders in our Church just as the disciples did in the first century churches. Why am I speaking of hierarchy? It’s because of the need to establish a higher-up type of accountability to an Earthly member in the body of Christ.

What Arun has written is false. Apostles never approved such positions as priests, ministers and deacons. These are positions derived from Catholicism. Elder and overseer is the same and that’s what apostles approved. Arun openly enforces a hierarchy on people. Other members such as Angel, Mark Luz and Tosin also openly speak about the hierarchy when Jesus Christ has rejected it:

The greatest among you shall be your servant. — Matthew 23:11

Your bible talk and church leaders are neither servants nor elders. Elder must never lord over you, but they have enslaved you. They conduct private meetings called “leadership meetings” and you are not even allowed to hear what they say behind closed doors. Elders and servants don’t do this. God is the true God, but bible talk and church leaders are only idols.

But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King… — Jeremiah 10:10

My friend Firoz has rejected the membership status. He does not desire it anymore. You must follow his example. Accepting a membership from church leaders means becoming a slave of them. As an exchange for the slavery to them, church leaders offer a family — a group of other members with whom you must regularly meet.

The Scriptures do not speak of the family but that’s how church leaders call a group of people they lord over. When church leaders baptise someone, they immediately invite them to the family and provide a membership status. On the attached picture, a church leader from Jakarta by the name Ferdinand who taught me Scriptures has baptized a woman:

The comment states, “Welcome to the family of Christ”. He welcomed woman to the family, so now she is bound by the rules, traditions, dogmas and bylaws of the church leaders.

A member by the name Ben reveals in his email to me the demonic doctrine widespread among you:

We must submit ourselves to the leadership(Rom 13:1–5) as God won’t come down from heaven and leads us directly.

Ben erroneously states that God won’t come down from heaven to lead you directly. This is false. Christ has indeed came down from heaven to lead you directly. Romans 13:1–5 speaks about obedience to the governing authorities, but bible talk and church leaders are the illegitimate authority. God has never appointed them. They are not the elders as they claim to be, so you must never submit to them.

You must leave bible talk and church leaders who have replaced Christ. Reject the membership and family acceptance which they have given you. If the blind leads another blind, both will fall into a pit:

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” -Matthew 15:14

You need to read the below article of how Jesus Christ would speak with the church leader, pastor or priest about the church membership:

https://medium.com/@chuck.lee4447/jesus-rejects-church-membershp-d41d2c5562ba

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