In Reply to: Re: AntiChrist Systems posted by how i see it on May 03, 2004 at 21:05:19:
Perhaps you can tell us some about your experience with the Yates pastor/nut. How did you get involved, how did u get out, and where are you now in your life? I would really like to know if you wouldn't mind writing about that. :)
I have a whole website written primarily to warn college students about Woroniecki:
This is the 'Miketrix' entrance: http://hometown.aol.com/pranalite/entrance.html
And this is the main page with all the links to articles I've written: http://hometown.aol.com/pranalite/main.html
Woroniecki was rejected by 'the system' in seminary before he even got his foot in the door. His radical behavior on Fuller campus left him without a succesful job interview after finally obtaining his masters of theology. Somewhere along the line he picked up on Berg's antisystem preaching and began to protest the churches. I was one of his trophies, having been stripped out of their pews. 4 years later he left me for dead (going to hell). Like many people, I continued to believe his was God's servant and that I was just an 'emotional basketcase.' When I learned about the Yates tragedy, I began to closely examine Mike with a more open mind. Once I realized he was violating his most fundamental doctrine which was to 'hate your life in this world' (Jn 12:25) by defending his meal ticket and scapegoating both Rusty and Andrea, the light finally turned on for me and I saw he was nothingless than a scoundrel and a deceiver.
I've found that Mike is just a monstrous mosaic of some of the most manipulative tactics and doctrines of Catholism, Pentacostalism and So Cal Christian cults lumped into one. He says his teachings are from (rhema) revelation from God, but I see Berg beat him to his antichist-system doctrines by more than 10 years! As a 'Noah like prophet of these last days,' he's nothing more than a cheap imitation of Christianity's worst.
That's why I'm here, trying to find out how Woroniecki came across Berg's teachings while he was in Orange County from 1976-80.
He seems to also have been influenced by Christian Brothers of Long Beach CA, in style and in doctrine, but the anti-system doctrine isn't one that they taught (at least that I'm aware of). Christian Brothers morphed into Cornerstone Ministries out of Norwalk, CA, a street preacher organization led by several of Bobby Engel's disciples. I examined their doctrines and found an abundance of Mike's teachings there. They see most of Christianity as 'whimpy'and watered down but they don't altogether reject it like Berg does. As far as Mike is concerned, the whole of Christianity is antichrist preaching a polluted 20th century gospel. He alludes that like Noah only he and his family of 8 will be saved. I'm convinced he's totally delusional, paranoid and possibly bipolar. I think he interpreted his depressive phase as times of suffering and dying to the Lord and his manic phases as Holy Spirit anointings. I've studied his writings and recordings and found several instances where his descriptions of these experiences suggest mental illness rather than liberation. Is the Christian life nothing more than depression with intermitent bursts of joy that last only for several weeks? Is the joy and peace of God so unsettling that one must run around his house several times to burn off the high? Is a man who snaps at you every time you turn and sneeze led by the Spirit? This guy needs lithium as far as I'm concerned.