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    I've Been Ruined!
    I've Been Ruined!
    I've Been Ruined!
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    I've Been Ruined!

    By John C. Fenn

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    The context of the New Testament was apostles doing church in the home writing to believers doing church in the home, meaning the context of everything from how we do church to the fivefold is to be understood in a home setting. Once you realize this, your whole spiritual life will change in freedom!

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    PublisherJohn C. Fenn
    Release dateNov 24, 2015
    ISBN9781310523267
    I've Been Ruined!
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    John C. Fenn

    John and Barbara Fenn were born in Kokomo, Indiana and grew up just a few miles from each other. They attended the same kindergarten, went to many of the same neighborhood birthday parties growing up, and had mutual friends. Barb even attended John's confirmation in the Episcopal Church when they were twelve years old. They began dating as teenagers and were born again together and baptized with the Holy Spirit at age sixteen. Each attended Indiana University after graduating high school and were then married in 1978. In early 2002 John and Barb founded the Church Without Walls International of Tulsa (CWOWI), a house church network, emphasizing relationship-based Christianity. The seeds of CWOWI were planted in 1992 during a time of prayer. The Lord Jesus appeared to John in a visitation and shared some of what He would be doing in the future. Part of the Lord's plan was an exodus from many of the "para-church" organizations that were raised up after the Charismatic renewal of the 1960s and 70s. This would produce a movement of more "para-church" organizations, home prayer meetings, and also home-based churches. On November 4, 2001, during an evening church meeting in Edmonton, Alberta, Jesus appeared again to John. As both John and the host pastor fell to their knees, Jesus laid hands on John and told him to start a home church network "based on my Word and the things you've learned through the people I've brought across your path this year." The Lord said He wanted it to be called The Church Without Walls International. The next month, CWOWI began meeting in the Fenn home, and is growing and gaining affiliate house churches as relationships develop. Known for teaching with anointing and by revelation and flowing with the gifts of the spirit, his heart's desire is to make known the ways of the Father God. Church Without Walls International (CWOWI) is dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ through the establishment of a network of related house churches around the world.

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      I've Been Ruined! - John C. Fenn

      I’ve Been Ruined!

      Copyright 2015 John C. Fenn

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      Table of Contents

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      I’ve Been Ruined!

      Part 1

      Hi all,

      I was invited by an Episcopal (Anglican) priest to teach a house church conference in his Episcopal church, which I thought was a strange, but I went anyway. When I walked into that church with its rich woodwork, orderly pews, altar and the eternal flame up front, memories of my childhood flooded back to me in rapid fire succession like a movie trying to show years of a person’s life in a matter of seconds.

      It’s all I knew

      That flame is the presence of the Lord, was Mom’s answer to my question of, What is that red candle on the wall by the altar? as we walked across the back of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Kokomo, Indiana. I was probably eight years old if that, and Mom was introducing us to church for the first time. As she answered, I was trying to wrap my mind around God living in that building, right there behind the altar, with us just THAT close to Him, while also thinking I could walk up there and blow the candle out, then what would happen to the universe? Would I be struck dead? I didn’t want to think about it.

      Part of me wanted to run outside and stop passing cars with the great news that God lived in the church building RIGHT THERE! Part of me wondered why, if this was real, weren’t others running out and stopping passing cars with this exciting news? Something didn’t make sense, I thought to myself.

      St. Andrew’s was my introduction to Christianity and church life. We went to church, genuflected before entering our pew, to give respect to Jesus or something, and settled in. In my mind we always made a scene when we went to church each Sunday: four kids each born two years apart so we looked like perfect stair steps. Everyone turned to see Dad lead the way, then Mom, then we

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