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C3 Marion Scandal? (Part 1) “Pastor” Jude letting people down

22 Thursday May 2014

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We will be covering two scandals at C3 Marion in this article.

SCANDAL 1

This first article will be looking at an important conversation on our C3 SCANDALS page.

As you start browsing the C3 Scandals page, a few commentors have raise an issue about an alleged scandal down at C3 Church Marion. We have received fragments of this situation all over our site. (If anyone can provide a thorough explanation of the situation, please email us at c3churchwatch@hotmail.com.)

Before looking at the situation, we thought it would be smart to look at a C3 Marion “Church” defender upholding the integrity of C3 Marion and their “Pastor” Jude,

“We are a C3 church and we don’t judge our success by how many people we have coming. All those people that come and go don’t understand our vision and they are critical and jealous of Pastor Jude’s ministry. He is wise and has helped many be better Christians teaching them about being in church every week, bringing an offering and submitting to godly leadership. It doesn’t matter we only have 60-70 people but what’s in our hearts. Without Pastor Jude our church wouldn’t even be there.”

Source: Marty, C3 Scandals, C3 Church Watch, https://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-10217, December 13, 2013 at 7:45 am. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

In defending C3 and Jude, we asked the C3 member what the gospel is. Here are their comments:

I rebuke your comments and think you all need to repent and ask God to forgive you.C3 is not old fashioned at all. It does preach the true gospel and that includes Pastor Jude Blaney. Many people at our church are comitted to the gospel, are sticking at the church and that doesn’t mean we are a cult – just are committed to the gospel.

Source: Marty, C3 Scandals, C3 Church Watch, https://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-11378, February 4, 2014 at 7:19 am. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

The Gospel is living your best life now… not in heaven but here on earth. C3 Marion is an awesome church and Pastor Jude Blaney is an awesome pastor who is taking the church to higher and higher and higher levels. All my friends from the church who seen this site criticising us are more determined to stick with pastor Jude no matter what. We don’t care what you say. People who say we are finished because we are having to sell the church building don’t know Pastor Jude and don’t know us. Watch this space!

Source: Marty, C3 Scandals, C3 Church Watch, https://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-11865, February 20, 2014 at 1:01 am. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

Where did you think Pastor Jude and “Marty” got this eternally damning gospel from? We’ll give you a clue.

There is nothing more scandalous than getting involved in a place that presents itself as a Christian church but sends its members to hell. Another commentor offered their observations on “Pastor” Jude.

I was a member of C3 Marion for quite a while and am still in contact with many people I made friends with there. It hasn’t grown at all over the 13 years Jude Blaney has been in control despite lots of words from Blaney himself about how “switched on and relevant” he is. I left because his preaching was really weak and not relevant to me. Most of CCC seem to be in a time-warp – old fashioned teaching that’s got very little of the true gospel – its just a string of meaningless platitudes. Its not the gospel – its a hard program of religious works. Many people that attend are people like Marty – you’d have to describe them as simple and vulnerable to religious control and manipulation.

Source: Anon, C3 Scandals, C3 Church Watch, https://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-10373, December 27, 2013 at 6:24 am. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

It is true for “Anon” to say, has “old fashioned teaching that’s got very little of the true gospel”. This is the Christian gospel:

“Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.”
1 Corinthians 15:1-5

If you attend C3 Marion and think “the Gospel is living your best life now”, then you need to leave your church, cling to Christ and His cross and repent of your sins so you may be spared from God’s coming wrath.

SCANDAL 2

On topic of “your best life now”, Trevor Russell found his “best life now” by becoming a C3 pastor and living a life of immoral pleasure. This second scandal can also be followed on the same page:

“What about CcC Marion in Adelaide who are refusing to pay compensation for a number of young men abused by convicted paedophile Pastor Trevor Russell. Pastor Jude Blayney, the cults present leader is desperately fighting to keep control of a diminishing congregation with diminishing financial resources. Speculation surrounds when fight will turn to flight for Blaney.”

Source: Champ145, C3 Scandals, C3ChurchWatch, http://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-7503, August 1, 2013 at 2:39 pm. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

Another witness followed up with this:

C3 Marion announced to its people in October 2013 that it has settled out of court for $500,000 for the paedophilia victims..History of C3: Jude Blaney kicked out Peter Vacca (the founder of Bethesda Movement when he was sick) and then turned the church in to C3. All the property built up by Peter Vacca and goodwilled members is now under Blaney’s control. C3 announced they are liquidating their property to pay the settlement and debts massed by Blaney over the years for African “mission trips” where the pastors stayed in luxuary hotels and went white-water rafting on their days off, leased cars, wages and long-service leave. Seriously days-off…. I bet David Livingston didn’t have “days-off” when in Africa. Blaney has turned a once mighty church into a big belly flop. with just 60-70 adults attending the biggest service.I’m not happy with the way this has all turned out.

Source: Nathan Digeaux, C3 Scandals, C3ChurchWatch, https://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-9696, November 20, 2013 at 2:38 am. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

Nathan later said,

What about C3 Marion scandal in the side part so more people know about the mess in Adelaide Jude Blaney has created? Its not just about Phil Pringel – its the incompetant “pastors” he has let become a part of the franchise. I wonder how much $ will go missing when the liquidation happens – some will go to Pringle probably.

Source: Nathan Digeaux, C3 Scandals, C3ChurchWatch, https://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-9696, November 20, 2013 at 2:48 am. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

A third witness piped in:

“I WILL NEVER NEVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE TREVOR RUSSELL FOR THE IMPACT HE HAS HAD ON MY LIFE AND THE LIFE OF MY HUSBAND WHO SUFFERED AT HIS HANDS.”

Source: Maria Claire, C3 Scandals, C3ChurchWatch, https://c3churchwatch.com/c3-scandals/#comment-15442, April 29, 2014 at 1:50 pm. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

So what happened?

Here are some news articles that have covered this issue. It frustrates us how C3 always denies any responsibility for their actions.

Paedophile confesses to molesting 5 more boys

A convicted paedophile has confessed in the South Australian Supreme Court to molesting five teenage boys up to 30 years ago.

Trevor John Russell, 57, of Stansbury has already pleaded guilty to sexually abusing four teenage boys at church camps in the early 1980s.

But the case took a new turn today, when Russell confessed to abusing five other boys in the 1970s and ’80s.

Prosecutor Karen Ingleton said one of those victims had agreed to let the judge take his case into account when sentencing Russell.

But Ms Ingleton asked the judge not to include the other four new victims in her sentence, to give the men the opportunity to have their day in court.

She said some of the victims could not be contacted, while others were still coming to terms with the sudden confession.

Source: ABC News, Paedophile confesses to molesting 5 more boys, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-01-17/paedophile-confesses-to-molesting-5-more-boys/2174270, 17/01/2007. (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

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Here is another article on the issue,

CLAIMS CHURCH FAILED TO ACT ON ‘PERVERT’

CHURCH elders allowed a paedophile pastor and youth leader to ply his evil trade by failing to act on repeated warnings over his “inappropriate behaviour” with young boys, court documents claim.

Trevor John Russell is serving a nine-year sentence for molesting boys while a pastor at Christian City Church Marion – which has denied that it owes the victims any compensation.

Three men, now in their early 40s, have launched a civil claim against the church over the abuse they suffered at the hands of Russell at church-run youth camps in the Flinders Ranges in the late 1970s and early 1980s when they were aged 12 and 13.

In their District Court statement of claim, the men say three female church members had complained to senior church staff that Russell was “a pervert” who had behaved inappropriately towards young boys.

The victims all claim to have suffered ongoing psychological and psychiatric problems because of their childhood abuse, including post traumatic stress disorder.

The church denies it was responsible or liable for the actions of Russell.

The civil case has been adjourned for a further hearing in March next year.

Source: Andrew Dowell, Claims church failed to act on ‘pervert’, The Advertiser, http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21500921-2682,00.html, December 23, 2009 12:01am.  (Accessed 22/05/2014.)

You would think Phil Pringle and his leadership would have learnt the first time.

 

 

C3 Parramatta Scandal (Part 1)

C3 Parramatta Scandal (Part 2) Sex, Money, Power

C3 Giving Sermon Transcript: Just Another Manic Sunday

24 Friday Feb 2012

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C3 has 10 minute sermons between church announcements and C3 News. These 10 minute sermons are 10 minute talks on money. This is a sermon transcript of Phil Pringle in a Sunday, 9am Service, Christian City Church Oxford Falls, 24/10/2010. We will publish a critique with this 10 minute giving sermon:

“Well we’re going to receive our tithes and offerings right now. We’re going to get excited about all the great things we can accomplish with our giving. And if you don’t have a card on your seat, raise your hand. There’s cards that are there for you to use, record credit card details – you can use that for giving and there’s a machine up the back that many people use. A lot of people on line watch us online or during the week, use the online giving facilities there for giving as well.

Let me just talk to you out of a scripture that’s known by everybody. Probably Billy Graham’s most famous scripture, ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. John three, sixteen. Every believer in the world should know it. But you know, it applies clearly to salvation. And every one of us need to actually own that scripture as our own so that we actually- we actually align ourselves; our emotions and our will, our intentions with God Himself. When it says ‘God so loved the world’, we need to put ourselves in there and say, ‘I so love the world, that I will give the only begotten son’. And for us to actually achieve that, to spread the Word of God around the world; to plant churches, make disciples, empower saints, build bible colleges- all of it is done through your giving. Through your generosity. And so this morning I just got a text from Andrew Kubalah. He’s in Invercargill and he said- what did he say to me? He said-(Ah-Oh that’s Dave Sumrall- he’s bringing six pastors… Amen!) Oh here it is:

“Great news! … I’m in Invercargill.”

Has anybody been to Invercargill? It’s like the last place on earth before you hit non-earth. And it’s like right under down there. Just across the road is that Stewart Island where they have mutton birds, hiding down holes. And nobody- nobody lives down there! Yet he got ninety people saved, amen! Incredible! Incredible!

And then he’s been back at his home town in Gore. The West Coast of the lower South Island of New Zealand. And I mean do you know that New Zealand is the furthest most place on earth from Jerusalem? And when Jesus left he said, ‘I want you to preach here in Jerusalem, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth. From the uttermost parts of the earth, there are some good things that’ve come outta there. Amen! Heh! One or two! Amen!

And what I am saying is that he and Janine are based. We have an office over there. All of that is- we’re able to do that because of your giving, your tithing, your faithfulness. You fulfilling what God’s called you to do, in bringing your tithes and your offerings into the House of God. You know this last couple of months we were in Bali, like two months ago. Might be less than that. Six- FOUR WEEKS!? I can’t believe that. Ok. Four weeks ago. And they told me there that there were forty eight people from Myanmar, eight people from Jakarta and two churches we were planting and that added up to fifty eight churches. And I said, ‘Wow! That’s astonishing!’.

And I came back here and another brother who’s working up in Indonesia, said he’s just met a group of pastors who want to become part of what we are doing and are just hanging out to do that. And that was thirty six churches. And then Simon came back from the European conference and he met a guy in Bulgaria who has sixteen churches. And he wants to hook in as well. And so in the last like six weeks, we have grown by nearly a hundred and twenty churches in the whole movement.

A hundred and twenty- a hundred and twenty churches. And that’s besides starting Hong Kong and a few other places we’re planting churches as well. Now you know, I remember when I said like, ‘Church, isn’t it amazing? We are planting one new church- growing by one new church every three days’.

Now I said that to you about six weeks ago. And I said, ‘I’m looking forward to the day when we are gonna be growing by one church a day’. And you all sat there ‘n said, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah! Pastor, nah. Don’t get too excited. I mean as if that’s ever going to happen’. Well it’s happened right now in Jesus’ name. That’s just in four weeks time!

I know you were doubting out there but it’s okay. I have my moments too. And so you and I believing together- we’ll start to see ten churches a day being planted and growing. We gotta reach this world. And every time a church is planted, it’s not about the numbers or all this kind of thing. They’re exciting. But it’s about how many more thousands of people will come to Christ all around the world today and C3 churches all around the world, they’ll be about two thousand people that will come to Christ. That’s just in the existing churches. Now once these new ones are coming in. And they come into Christ, they become disciples, they become empowered and they become ministries themselves- the whole process keeps on growing and expanding. That is because we have decided to own the purpose of God in our own heart.

We will so love the world that we will give sacrificially; the best of our lives for God gave the best that He had, His Son. He didn’t give us an angel He didn’t like, ‘I don’t like him much. And uh, he’s got a broken wing anyways – off you go!’. He said- He found what He considered the most priceless, most valuable sacrifice in His world that He could make for the salvation for the souls of men and women everywhere. And so He sent Jesus. And so that’s the emotion. The will of God is easy. The bible says God is not willing that any would perish. He’s not willing that any should perish. So I’ve got to own that as my will.

I am not willing that any should perish. What’s my will in this life? Is it to own this sort of car? To buy a muffler for my motorbike? Is it to- what is the intention on the inside of me? Is it to become a sports star? A rock star? To become some other kind of star? You know is it to make a lot of money? Is it to build a big business? My deepest purpose- and deepest purpose- is that I am unwilling that anybody should perish and I will use all the forces I can get a hold of to bring people to Jesus Christ, to make them born again. Amen!

And so that is why here every week without apology, we will say, ‘let’s bring our tithe and our offerings into the House of God’. Because even though you are not in Invercargill, you are there today preaching and winning ninety people to Jesus Christ. Even though you can’t be in our conference maybe in Bali when we’re praying over forty eight new churches coming into the house, coming into the C3 movement, you are there every time you give you are partnering with us. We can’t do that unless we do this, what we’re doing right now.

And every time I’m preaching to whatever it is, several hundred million people around the world through television, you’re doing that. People in Siberia that I’ve had come down to Moscow for a leadership conference. They’ve said, ‘We’ve travelled eight days over Siberian wilderness to get here, amen!’ I said, ‘How you know about us?’. They said, ‘Oh we put a rubbish tin lid up towards the satellite, put a little wire down into our TV set and there you are preaching in the middle of Siberia for goodness sake!’.

That doesn’t happen without cameras and screens and projectors that break down every now and then. But you know – and we just need a new one, amen. We just found that out this morning. Amen! We just can’t get. We just can’t do all these things unless we are here. So I want to thank you on behalf of Jesus, amen! And behalf of the church and behalf of the thousands of people who have been saved. Hundreds of thousands of people who have been saved… And the hundreds of thousands that are going to be saved: all through Asia, all through these areas of the world that you have been a participant in making this happen, in Jesus name. Let’s take our offering here today and bring it to the Lord.

Father, I thank you that this is not just about numbers and it’s not just about money. It’s about the souls of men and women being saved for eternity. And Lord there is no other higher purpose in all the world that we can give ourselves too. So we pray that Lord, as the love of God and the will of God are our own, that Jesus you’ll equip us and enable us to give sacrificially, to give our best, to give our all for the great purpose for salvation and the building of the church, in Jesus name. And everybody said, amen!” – Phil Pringle, (43:43-52:46), Sunday, 9am Morning Service, Christian City Church Oxford Falls, 24/10/2010.