The Damage Control And Smear Campaign

Thread #47 Last night we received a phone call from a couple who had been with the Columbus. Georgia NTCC under the Oberhausers. We all were in the church together for quite some time. A couple years or so. Of course we knew them fairly well. They were still in the church when my family left and they witnessed the smear campaign. In addition to their witness, was another person to whom I have talked.

They told us Oberhauser said that everyone who had left his church (NTCC), "God will destroy". How is it that a minister feels that he has the power to bring a curse of God upon people who leave his church? How can you say you love people when you want to see your own prophesy of God's destruction brought upon their lives simply because they left your church. No one slashed your tires, they didn't slap your wife or even kick your dog; they just left your church because you had become abusive just like your counterparts.

In the same manner that people preached loyalty to "Davis and the NTCC" after the Denis split, Oberhauser was said to have preached for about two months on loyalty to himself and the NTCC. This is also what the brother told us.

Oberhauser would also say to the church that "no one had voted him in and no one was going to vote him out." Ironically he actually did get voted out when the NTCC leadership replaced him with Hunt: the very man whom Oberhauser had replaced previously. Here is the funny part. A few years earlier, Hunt had left the church in Columbus and was replaced by Oberhauser because Hunt said that God never called him to be in Columbus in the first place. Hunt said God had called him to Montgomery Alabama. Hunt said that Denis had tricked him into coming to Columbus and that is why he hadn't followed the call of God directing him to Montgomery. Then guess what happens just a few years later? Oberhauser runs the church into the dirt and apparently God changes his mind about Hunt being needed in Montgomery because Hunt came right back to Columbus to replace Oberhauser. I guess God couldn't figure out what to do with Hunt or Oberhauser for that matter. I know the NTCC leadership will say that Oberhausers time was up in Columbus anyway. That is garbage because Oberhauser was a failure in Columbus and the NTCC leadership knows it. Didn't Oberhauser go back to Graham? That is what the church members were told. The NTCC is a joke. I posted information on FACTNet a while back concerning the complete debacle that existed within the Southeastern NTCC church region. Here is the link.

http://www.factnet.org/vbforum/showthread.php?t=12458

Back to the smear campaign. Oberhauser told this married couple that my marriage was in shambles. He also told them that I loved my house more than I loved God, and that is why my family left his church. Oberhauser told this couple that I was quote "greedy". Do yourself a favor NTCC folks. At all costs, avoid telling your NTCC pastor any of your personal or marriage buisness because all they will ever do is use it against you. The NTCC pastor will blab it to every church member he has, if you ever leave his church. He will do that to discredit you and your spouse. Lets get something straight here. My wife and I had plenty of very serious disagreements while we were in the NTCC. She was absolutely opposed to going to the NTCCs school of rules AKA bible school, and as time went on she fought me every step of the way and I thank God. You can best believe this subject in itself caused many problems between us. I thank God we never did leave to go the the NTCC school of ridiculous rules and abuse, and I give my wife much credit for that very fact.

Since Oberhauser had lost and or ran off about 85% of his church, money problems plagued him. He had to get a job as a result. He preached / blasted this husband about buying his wife gifts vs giving more money to the church. As you all know NTCCs tactic is to divide and conquer if they suspect that a spouse is straddling the fence. Oberhauser would suggest that this mans wife should come secondary to the church and as a result undo stress was placed on their marriage.

Jeff