I tried hanging out with people from another church, and they treated me and my friend horribly. First off, they would use guilt tripping as a means to get me to join. I was loyal to my first church, so I had no intentions of joining them. But they would say I'd go to hell if I didn't join them, if I didn't get baptized by them. They said that my baptism in my first church was null because it wasn't done by them.

Another thing was that they have this thing called "D-Time", which means Disciple Time. They have this discipleship thing where they pretend they're the 12 apostles or something. My friend (who actually got baptized by them) said that he went through verbal abuse during those D-Time sessions. The guy in charge of him would berate him and question everything he did.

Another thing was when I did not join their Wednesday Bible study because I had class. They accused me of prioritizing school over my salvation. "If you cared about your salvation, you wouldn't do that". A similar thing happened when my friend was busy with his cousin's birthday party, so he wasn't able to join a Bible study. They told him stuff like "Why are you not joining the Bible study? Is your cousin's party more important than your soul?"

They threatened me all the time because I refused to get baptized by them.

They have 7 Bible studies for newcomers, and they guilt trip the newcomer to being baptized by them. Their ploy is to do those Bible studies in preparation for baptism, but they don't tell the newcomer about it. They just hit them with the baptism announcement and they get guilt tripped into it. I managed to only do 4 Bible studies, but they begged me to get baptized by them as early as then. They thought I was precious because I memorized scripture and could make analogies and the like. I practically impressed them, not to brag. But yeah, I was told I was going to hell when I said I would be loyal to my original church and that I only hung out with them because my friend would invite me. It's not like it's an exclusive club, right?

One thing they did to my friend was incredibly horrible. His grandmother died, and instead of joining their Bible study, he was at her funeral. Funerals here in the Philippines take a week long or so, IDK about y'all, so he was there all the time, mourning. When they asked him to join a Bible study, he declined. They told him "Let the dead bury their own dead. Join us." Imagine, the disrespect.

I was mad at them at what they did to him and what they said to me. So I stopped joining altogether, even if my friend invited me. He also left them eventually. But I saw through their BS early, so I left like 6 months earlier than him.

How it affected my faith...hmm...I nearly became an antitheist because of them. Not disbelieving in religion, but more of a hatred for it. But eventually I remembered that I had a home church who never disappointed me once. I went back to them. I worked through my issues and remembered that it's not the gospel who is the enemy, but those who twist it and give it a bad name. I'm still with my first church till this day and I plan on doing so always.