Lakes Free Church — Attraction in Lindström

I attended this church as a youth sometime between 2009 and 2013. During that time I attended youth groups and bible studies, along side Sunday services. Many classes and services were very well taught. It's very professional. I want to bring attention to the harmful rhetoric being taught as well. As a young woman, I was given analogies and compared to disposable objects. This place compared me to wedding dresses, chewing gum and Kleenex and to lose my purity would completely devalue me. I would have to present these dirty and broken items to my husband on my wedding night. The separated the boys from girls during the youth group for almost an entire year. I was given a strict list of rules and guidelines to follow to "keep our brothers from stumbling". I did not learn about respect or consent. Instead I was solely responsible for any action taken against my purity. After an assault, I was told I could "pray for my purity again". As an adult I've looked into these books we read from. There's nothing about respect or consent in the book for boys, it talks more about not looking up inappropriate images. As I've aged I still struggle with the harmful rhetoric I was taught. Many of my peers continue to struggle as well. Shame and guilt. I wish that kids were taught more about being made in god's image, vs. all the rules we need to follow. This church is very fundamentalist. Very harmful and absolutely pushed me further from Jesus than...

If you are looking for a church that still preaches the Bible and in a very balanced way, Lakes Free is the place for you! The pastors are incredibly knowledgeable and caring. They inform and instruct without being judgmental, although many these days might claim they are being judgmental by simply speaking the truth. 2Timothy 4:3-4 tells us that there will come a day when many will not want to hear the truth but will instead be lead away to listen to what they want to hear. A quick internet search of where churches are at today with regards to foundational beliefs is an indicator that Lakes Free may very well be one of the last bastions holding onto long held truths about the Bible and sin and most importantly our need for Jesus. So I would like to encourage anyone, no matter your past or your background, or if you are currently searching for truth, to give Lakes Free a chance. Please do not think that I am a religious zealot by what I'm saying here. But instead; come to Lakes Free, get involved, listen to what is being said, and may God lead you to a true...

As a child I accepted Christ only visiting this church once as my family was shopping for a new home church. We did end up at another church as a kid. Over time when I was older got married and had a few kids, we moved to the area. This is the church I brought my wife and kids to, and only unless I was visiting someone. After a few years we got to know many people. My marriage has been hard from the beginning and as time went by people from this church began to be closer to my wife and kids and more distant to me. I'm going through divorce now and a large group of women at this church run rampent after worldy desires of feminist ideology. It was too much for my marriage to be unbroken. only Jesus can heal my soon to be ex wife,children and me. I know a plan from the beginning of life was spoken into the world and the one who spoke knows the beginning to the end and glory and honor only to Him. I accept your plan, I accept your reprof, and I accept your...