I realise, it may not be relevant for you...directly, living far away...but I heard about this "charismatic" Swiss guy...with lots of own children ("education" with corporal punishment included) , who "help" within the group, having "their ministries" ... many years back...throu online accounts/reports of visitors..."backsliders etc....now since my best friend for years since leaving TF decided to pay those "guys" in Switzerland a visit (hope, he doesn't get influenced...I figure, what's the use of going there??)...I thought I might give you a brief view of the "temptation" which presents itself with that group in the Germanic speaking area....I heard another Swiss guy (Werner Arn) some years back in my town here, just for the heck of it...no travel included & to check the "guy out"...but that guy appears rather "harmless", compared to Ivos Sasek...but they are all the true "Napoleon", by their own yardsticks...I know that joke got recycled by TF...pardon me...Anyway, here you go:
The Purpose and Goal of the OCG
A Spiritual Network
At some point in time researchers realized that people can infect each other with viruses and germs. Besides they realized that there is generally some thing akin to an invisible network which exists between all human beings. This discovery has been both revolutionary and dramatic, because this law of infection, whether it is physical, psychological or spiritual, turned out to be globally effective. The fight against AIDS gives a vivid picture of what kind of problem one has to face, until all those concerned may appreciate and approve of the necessary precautionary measures. However, especially those affected the most are, as a rule, at the same time the most difficult ones to convince that they are to change their thinking and, more importantly, their conduct.
That’s why there is an absolute necessity to be and raise an organically connected Christ generation (OCG) now and to have you join it. The OCG then by now is and conveys this top priority message that, as a matter of fact, we Christians as well are altogether networked with each other, i.e., spiritually networked. The true Christendom does not live as separate from one another in independent organizations; it rather lives as in one spiritual organism. This means that each individual's sin, similar to a virus or germ, affects the whole organism. Just as different contagious diseases differ in their contagiousness, so the same is true regarding sin. There is sin, says the apostle John, which is not mortal, whereas on
(1. John5:16) For centuries Christendom has underestimated this spiritual reality and because it took it very lightly, there wasn’t finally any longer any real separation from sin or those stubbornly living in it.
As a stringent result of this negligence a global catastrophe is brewing or rather is already in full swing insofar as, tracing it right down to its spiritual roots, the vast majority of Christendom has totally lost its spiritual sensibility to the voice of God and His Spirit’s operations. With most Christians there absolutely prevails an epidemic of spiritual blindness, spiritual indifference and spiritual death.
The worst thing about this epidemic, however, is the "full stomach" syndrome which describes the fact that those affected with it think of themselves as being quite alright and who by no means realize that they are infested by this “spiritual virus”. Jesus hit the mark when he described this "full stomach" syndrome in Rev. 3:17-18, "Because you say, 'I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing', and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire that you may become rich, and white garments that you may clothe yourself and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to anoint your eyes that you may see."
The commission of the OCG (Organic Christ-Generation) is, as prompted and moved by the Lord, the recovery of this spiritual hygiene as well as the organic church life, both in teaching and practice. For this recovery, though being a worldwide inter denominational move to restore the churches (not to call out of them), the OCG first of all focuses on the regaining of the Christian lifestyle the organically Christ-lived life–in even the smallest cells in them, that is to say at home in the married life and in the own immediate families or in other healthy groups of living together according to the normative Biblical patterns of the kingdom life. Living organically that is giving and serving each other along with the operations of that life being the life of Christ indwelling us, in contrast to holding sway over the other or making use of him. It is more blessed to give than to receive!
&gn;Consequently, this organic church life, which is to be recovered, rests on our very own personal life lived in truth and transparency, in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Hence, all spiritual extremism and so all division is averse to it. Rather, just the way as our human body is in need of every single organ of it, so we all as believers being in Christ are mutually in need of each other, in order to become built up in the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace (Eph. 4:3) as His one Body and Organism. So, the OCG is neither a new denomination nor a movement having its origin in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, but rather it is the outflow of a spiritual reality which had its beginning at Pentecost with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and which now, in our days, is about to find its completion and fulfillment.
Whoever, in his heart, bears this same, the OCG’s burden –as very briefly outlined in here– and whose spirit witnesses to it as being the eternal purpose of God for these last days: may he make the effort to stand in the breach before God together with us and all those He is yet to call out and lead together to establish His kingdom, the kingdom of peace. (Rom. 14:17 + 16:20)
Ivo Sasek
Prophetic Conferences
Additional to its regular meetings the OCG is conducting Prophetic Conferences where Ivo Sasek speaks about subjects that are relevant for our day and age and also for the future. They take place about every two months on Saturdays. they typically last from around 10 a.m. until the evening.
To give you an idea of the subjects that are touched during the Prophetic Conferences, here is a summary of the message from the last conference on September 22nd 2007:
Ivo Sasek was raising the challenging question whether we have become a people who just absorb everything without second thought. Every day we get lopsided information by the mass media. We all know that but what do we do about it? Still, for almost every subject there are counter voices rising up but which are suppressed consistently. Who dares to do such things in a society that has a right of free information? Because if these voices are right we are lied to in the name of science, exploited financially in the name of global warming and our children are harmed by vaccinations. Ivo is challenging us to reconsider, even if it takes a paradigm shift. We may need a coalition of the righteous to re-establish truth.
If you are interested you can order free copies of the sermon at the Panorama Zentrum.
Dates and places of future prophetic conferences are published in our quarterly newsletter and on the OCG homepage.
THE FOLLOWING IS UNFORTUNATELY ONLY IN GERMAN; THE ACCOUNT OF A CHRIST-BELIEVING STUDENT (OF A BELIEVING FAMILY), WHO BATTLED HEAVILY IN DECIDING WHETHER TO JOIN IVO SASEKS OUTFIT....THERE ARE MANY EXPOSING POSTS IN THE INTERNET; HOWBEIT, THEY ARE IN GERMAN, FROM WHAT I KNOW....I INCLUDED IT FOR THOSE WHO KNOW GERMAN SINCE IT'S SO SIMILAR IN MANY WAYS, TO THE TF-STRUCTURE AND WAYS OF DOING THINGS.