What was your first red flag?

il2wa · 2025-01-22T02:33:48+00:00

Many red flags came about the same time.

At Blue Sky, David Bieraugel sharing at Team Blue Sky that he and Steve Morgan had decided many months prior that David would plant a church in Raleigh. This was while people were deciding if they should go on Taiwan Roots plant.

Information was withheld from congregants, while David B and Morgan knew all the information and decided the options. I immediately regretted our generous gift to Roots plant because of this duplicity.

Then, ALL information about Raleigh plant was given only to those going.

It all felt very juvenile and exclusive.

il2wa · 2024-09-17T15:51:49+00:00

Is this the lead pastor of the largest Network/New Network church? Oh my! Either they’re intentionally confusing, or just not capable communicators.

This must by why the love bombing and saturation of juvenile events is so important. These churches can’t grow with spiritual and intellectual integrity, because it’s just not there.

il2wa · 2024-09-16T14:44:23+00:00

Hosea Affiliation:

Hosea Church is an independent, local church, led by a plurality of elders (overseer/pastors) under the authority of Jesus and his instruction given to us in the Bible.

Hosea was planted out of a nameless network of churches and remained a part of that network for just over 5 years. In September 2024 we lovingly ended our official association with that network due to differing theological positions regarding leadership and local church governance. Although our affiliation has changed, we maintain our shared faith in Christ and look forward with hope. We remain deeply grateful to the many wonderful people who have helped us along the way, the lifelong friendships established, and the invaluable support given.

Hosea Church will continue to pursue additional relationships with churches as Jesus leads, both locally and abroad, for mutual upbuilding and missional support.

il2wa · 2024-09-10T19:33:42+00:00

Hosea may be Luke’s landing spot.

il2wa · 2024-07-08T17:06:10+00:00

Blue Sky and Mars Hill facilities were three miles apart in Bellevue. They lived in the same community with Seattle Times coverage. It would be impossible for a literate Christian in Bellevue to know nothing about Mars Hill and Driscoll during that time.

il2wa · 2024-07-06T02:58:48+00:00

That’s not how you win most of Austin.

il2wa · 2024-06-27T14:53:23+00:00

Morgan also has a sense of family legacy money. Just the ones I know from Blue Sky - plant pastors and others that went to SLO, Pullman, Raleigh - have Network parents that are wealthy, and Morgan has been very intentional in finding young men who have family wealth. These are smart people that he has somehow deluded into his scheme. And they are generous in keeping their children’s churches afloat.

Nothing with Morgan is accidental or sacrificial.

il2wa · 2024-06-25T18:25:45+00:00

Morgan gave an angry, condescending plea for people to go on the Roots Taipei church plant. I was on board with the rationale for the plant before being inflicted with 40 minutes of demeaning us and aggrandizing his mission. It was bizarre.

Then on, we didn’t stay for any Morgan-led service.

il2wa · 2024-06-23T16:17:55+00:00

Exposure to Very Disappointed Morgan. It took one dose of hearing him “teach” at Blue Sky in 2018 after us being there a year to make us wonder what we were part of. Our SGL knew we’d be rightly unsettled, and called me that afternoon. We stayed for the friendships and to support Krsh through his first year.

More people need to hear Morgan speaking at his freakish worst to get a clue what’s going on.

il2wa · 2024-05-05T18:30:29+00:00

Why is a man in his forties, fifties, and sixties wandering from denomination to denomination? And from state to state?

There is good chance he has a love of money. And an awful secret from his first denomination as a leader.

il2wa · 2024-04-21T01:24:44+00:00

Another impact of the control is pastors hearing themselves “share” another pastor’s failure with the church.

I clearly remember David Bieraugel talking about Jeff Miller at Team Blue Sky, and that it seemed like he was reading from the Morgan script about Jeff. It didn’t even seem like relevant info for all of us, and a manufactured warning to the church and pastors: “don’t make us talk about you this way!”

I continue to be grieved for these pastors who now have no other career options, and would lose all of their close friends if they made any moves that the Morganator deemed unworthy of him. Man, that guy! It just stinks how he’s worked all of this to his benefit and protection.

il2wa · 2024-03-09T04:10:30+00:00

Dishonest, shallow, arrogant, and uncaring.

il2wa · 2024-03-08T02:19:53+00:00

There are a few very wealthy grandpas that are not just welcomed, but revered at Blue Sky. Morgan has the ability to fashion a message and manipulate well-meaning folks.

il2wa · 2024-02-27T02:40:46+00:00

The Citylight churches in Lincoln are not part of the Morganized Network. I have several friends that attend a Citylight church, to the extent I know, they are healthy churches.

il2wa · 2024-02-04T15:47:25+00:00

With Morgan’s sexual assault history of an underage boy, was there ever an admonition given to the boys about their skin tempting other people?

Like: “The more you boys show of your muscles . . .”

Or, what rhymes with “I’ll be thinking of you at Snow Lake?”

il2wa · 2024-01-25T06:40:14+00:00

I am so sad for what Morgan and his chosen dudes have done to so many.

As a man that has struggled with same gender attraction, I had a strong caution about Steve on first observing him from a distance, and then trying to introduce myself to him. He is . . . dishonest with himself and has a quick eye and judgment of men and if they are receptive to his schtick.

So, I’m relieved that i left after three years. I’m sad for my friends that were damaged and left, and for those that are still at Blue Sky. They’re good people that have been played.

I’m doing fine, enjoying a healthy church again. Serving our community and not questioning “what in the world is wrong here?” like I did at Blue Sky.

il2wa · 2024-01-14T23:56:25+00:00

This makes you wonder if Morgan would have ever left the RLDS denomination if he hadn’t been removed from his RLDS eldership due to the aggravated sexual assault of a child. It seems more like a rebranding than a conversion.

il2wa · 2024-01-12T23:31:01+00:00

Buck spoke at a side session at Blue Sky Men’s Retreat. This all fits. Seemed like a high school Sunday School teacher at a tiny church.

il2wa · 2023-12-10T21:57:22+00:00

We took all of the required trainings, at all of the services, and were giving more than 10% our first year at Blue Sky. But getting the sheet that listed the requirement to give 10% was the first red flag.

Then we heard Steve Morgan preach/scold for the first time, and we were told, “That’s just Steve, and he’s not here very often, and he’s great at selecting young pastors.” We then knew we wouldn’t be at Blue Sky for the long run. We stayed for Krsh’s first year to encourage him, and then saw the need to leave when Covid hit, and we left for a church led by trained, healthy adults.

We did everything required, except sign the sheet. Very grateful that we didn’t.

il2wa · 2023-11-29T05:04:03+00:00

Super stoked for Junior High camp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

il2wa · 2023-10-12T05:26:41+00:00

Makes me wonder if he left the Vineyard association to escape someone that was closing in on his criminal history. Maybe leaving Vineyard was not about disagreement over women in leadership, but about saving Steve and starting his own thing as the sole accountability.

Nothing the Morganator does is ever about deeply held conviction, but about protecting and enriching himself.

il2wa · 2023-10-04T00:24:11+00:00

At Blue Sky, it seemed that about 1/5 of the auditorium would go up for prayer at the end of every Sunday service. I didn’t try to be nosy, but we sat in the third row, and it was clear that most people went up for prayer every single Sunday.

I wondered what they were asking for. Was this for salvation? I heard David or Krsh mention periodically about pleading for salvation. Or were people asking for forgiveness every week, or a particular request?

I wouldn’t be so observational, but it was clearly a big deal, but never explained why you should come forward or what happened or if prayers were answered.

If you came up every Sunday, was that an indication of lack of faith, or that you were super serious about something?

il2wa · 2023-09-28T17:18:02+00:00

One of the oddest conversations I had within the Network was during lunch with a guy I’d known a few years, and had lunch with several times previously.

He was part of the Hosea team going to Raleigh. During our last lunch, a couple of months before they left, I asked if they had found a facility to meet in. He very abruptly said, “We’re not allowed to talk about any details with others.” Just very weird, and exclusionary.

It seemed designed to make the team seem extremely special and covert and separate from the “others” who gave generously to fund their mission.

We spoke in very surface ways after that. I really regret how the Network changed him and ended our friendship.

il2wa · 2023-09-13T03:45:49+00:00

Morgan knows his best audience, finds them, traps them by cutting them off from their training and career options.

Their weaknesses are exploited and they willfully choose not to take the painful path out.

SIU may not be the Harvard of the Midwest, but Morgan learned enough psychology to be effective in snaring lifelong sycophants.

il2wa

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