Chapter 16: Myth—God Owns Solid Rock

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Myth—God Owns Solid Rock

When the con gets exposed, all the dots become connected and

everyone can then understand what has happened. Usually a sleuth will connect the dots for others to clearly see what took place. This assumes that someone got a clue to the swindle at some point in time.

Exposed Con Reveals Connections

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Eight Seemingly Isolated Solid Rock Events!

1. 1991 – Hoogenboom sex scandal rocks Elk River AG Church 2. 1992 – Matthews candidates for senior pastor (September) 3. 1992 – Matthews installed as senior pastor (December) 4. 1993 – Matthews instructs membership classes (May)

5. 1993 – Matthews requests name change (July) 6. 1993 – Matthews files first false Article changes (July) 7. 1995 – Matthews requests change to AFCM Church (July) 8. 1995 – Matthews files final false Article changes (October)

The theft of Solid Rock Church took place over a period of four years. The events listed above appear totally unconnected with one another. They remained that way for ~1 1/2 years after I left the church on November 20,

1996. It was not until April 3, 1998, when I got the Article filings from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office that I began to piece together the nature of the church swindle that Matthews had pulled off.

God had planted me into that church for a specific reason. I studied

corporate law for my own corporations for over thirty years. I understood Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws. Indeed I had created them.