In college, perhaps it was in 1984, he heard a "kina quiet and simple" preacher who proclaimed a message of serving Jesus, not serving the church. Rusty Yates listened. He listened, too, as teh "quiet and simple" preacher traded barbs with a "fat cat preacher" standing across the way.
(still quoting)..The barbs the "quiet and simple" preacher exchanged wer the same ones Rusty would have thrown. He was impressed with the preacher. And his message of serving Jesus, not the church, freed Rusty Yates. He suddenly felt he didn't have to go to church; he was privileged enough, he said, to open the Bible himself. And he did.
He also corresponded with the preacher for the next year or two. At the end of that time, he was talking on the phone to his mother and told her, " I think I'm pretty much beginning to believe this stuff." With those words, "joy came over me". He finished telling his mother what he had to say, and then said it all over again because he was " so joyful." That joy, said Rusty Yates, was the Holy Spirit. " From your innermost being will flow rivers of living water." he quoted from John 7:38.
For the next few years after college, he and the preacher no longer corresponded. Then, after he met Andrea Kennedy, Yates corresponded with him about " once a year or so" The preacher's name was MICHAEL WORONIECKI. "
I did not copy this from the book for people to get into a discussion of scripture..rather, I typed it to show that the influence of this preacher got into Rusty in college..he stuck with it..introduced it to Andrea..got her indoctrinated..then..they contacted the Woroniecki's again and became GOOD FRIENDS with them. They had them over to the campground where they lived in their bus. Oh! incidentally, the preacher too LIVED IN A BUS..AHEM!!
Andrea corresponded with the preacher's wife for several years, and got this teaching pumped into her. I mean PUMPED into her! All the Satan stuff.
The scriptures were right. God's Word is right..but in the hands of false teacher's..who pour into the minds of people who cannot rightly divide the truth, it can be lethal.