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On a daily basis, I use a service called Google Alerts®. This is a free service which searches for certain terms on the web. News articles or blogs posts are returned according to the time table set-up by the user. One term I search for is “religious cults”. That should be no surprise. Recently, through that search I was made aware of a blog titled- “Religious Cults in the South” found at this link – http://religiouscultsinthesouth.blogspot.com The author is identified as “The Watcher”.
There are many “cult survivor” blogs on the web and some make for very good reading. This one caught my eye as it mentioned The Church at Rock Hill. In times past, I have had reason to go to Rock Hill, SC and am familiar with the city. So, I emailed the author to learn more. What was revealed was shocking in many ways.
The Watcher mentioned that the pastor of The Church at Rock Hill was Johnny Miller. Mr. Miller was introduced to “The Body of Christ” through the Rev. Lacey (Lacy) Hawkins. Rev. Hawkins’ spiritual roots are said to be from William Sowders. All of these names were new to me and I needed to do some research. “The Body of Christ” appears to be a loose knit spiritual grouping of churches in the US and several countries. Here is the link to The Church of Rock Hill’s website.. http://www.thechurchatrockhill.com/AboutUs.htm