The Wild Olive Shoot Community


Once, there was a church that received a vision from God. They dared to do what no other church at that time had done. They grew, and spread across the nation. They called themselves the Blaze Community.

But it absorbed teachings from other groups, both Christian and Pagan. The vision became polluted. Rather than examining itself, the Blaze Community became proud and arrogant, standing alone as the true church, against all opposition.

The Blaze died to an ember as people left, fleeing tyranny, judgement, and forced austerity. Humbly, the Blaze Community leaders sought God's forgiveness and direction.

Now the community received a new vision. One of grace, love, forgiveness, and mercy. Aware that it had been given another chance by God, it renamed itself the Wild Olive Shoot Community, with the knowledge that God could pluck them out of the Cultivated Olive (the universal church) if they ever again fell away from the path to which God had called them.

Monday, 5 March 2012

We're the Leaders of BCA

Before the Blaze Community collapsed and was reborn as the Wild Olive Shoot Community, a number of songs circulated, protesting about the Blaze Community Administration (or BCA), the top leadership under Christopher Stoneham. This is one of them.

We're the leaders of BCA
We're the ones that you must obey
We'll decide what you believe
We'll decide how you should live
[And if you don't like it...]
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We're the leaders of BCA

We're the leaders of BCA 
Say you're with us all the way
But if you've the inclination
To choose another denomination
[Well, we are the only true church, so...]
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We're the leaders of BCA 

We're the leaders of BCA
Our meetings last ten hours a day
Every one you must attend
And you must stay right to the end
[You're ill? That's no excuse, so...]
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We're the leaders of BCA

We're the leaders of BCA
You can only marry if we say
If we don't, don't worry mate
You can be a celibate
[But if you fall in love...]
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We're the leaders of BCA 

We're the leaders of BCA
Our authority and power hold sway
We're not your servants, we're your masters
At Godly living we're disasters
[But, if you challenge us...]
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We'll cast you out (we'll cast you out)
We're the leaders of BCA

We're the leaders of BCA
And we shake our heads in sad dismay
We're feeling rather numb as
Our members drop in numbers
[Is it because...]
We cast them out (we cast them out)
We cast them out (we cast them out)
We're the leaders of BCA

But when we stand before the King
He'll say 'To me you pray and sing.
But you've gone down your own way
When it's ME you should obey."
[And then...]
He'll cast us out (He'll cast us out)
He'll cast us out (He'll cast us out)
We're the leaders of BCA 
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