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Introduction
Truth Seekers of Jesus Christ is a developing Christian denomination within Bible Prophecy, built on specific Bible Prophecies about the end-times and present-day prophecies of Jesus Christ. It is the banner-name identifying the work of Minister D.A. Wynne and Truth Seekers Church in Tumwater, Washington. The church is categorized under Holiness Churches, Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches , and Bible Churches. Theologically, the work can be classified as Protestant, Pentecostalist and Restorationist.

History of Truth Seekers and Bible Prophecy
The website for Truth Seekers of Jesus Christ/Truth Seekers Church states:

"'Truth Seekers of Jesus Christ is an end-time ministry pioneering in the next move of God to protect Christians from the next moves of the Anti-Christ in this age.'"

According to Minister Wynne, she experienced a miracle encounter with Jesus Christ while a Master's degree matriculate at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1999. In that miracle encounter, Jesus Christ did not appear, but spoke. He stated that he had been listening to some Christians inside and outside of churches who were fed up with the increasingly commercial, entertaining, and politically motivated substitute for Church that has replaced what the first Christians were.

During that divine encounter, Minister Wynne states that Jesus commanded her and commissioned her to tell pastors, preachers, and Christians in general to come out of the "Christian System" and come back to him; also, to pastor His "Truth-Seekers". "Truth Seekers" is the term Minister Wynne says Jesus used to describe those Christians who want only Him as seen in the New Testament, nothing otherwise; therefore, her pastorates are identified by the name Truth Seekers Church.

She says that Jesus exposed a network of protocols, activities and programs which He said clergy have erected to impress society and approve themselves; but that Jesus Christ never sanctioned their protocols and methods to the first Christians. Minister Wynne explains that this systematized network across all denominations is what Jesus Christ referred to in the miracle encounter as "The Christian System."

Before the 1999 divine encounter, Minister Wynne reports that, in an earlier encounter, Jesus Christ spoke a prophecy that Christianity would become the hottest new business fad. He told her adherents and non-adherents to the Christian faith would notice the profitability of Christian media, Christian retail, and other venues and would cash in on multitudes of things pertaining to the name Jesus Christ. She says that prophecy has come to pass and the baby-boomer generation has witnessed it happen during their lifetime.

She, further, states that Christ's purpose in the divine encounter was to prepare Christians for the approaching time of the Anti-Christ, so they can be exempt from His powers and help others turn to Jesus Christ, exactly as He is in the New Testament. Jesus warned her that to accomplish this would demand an upcoming revival in which the reverence for God that was pre-70s would be restored among some American Christians and their influence in American life would be restored. She says it was not her, but others in the country who heard from Christ that the upcoming revival is termed "God's new move" (in the earth).

Opposition to Truth Seekers
The ministry had been in an exilic mode from 1999 to 2010 with rare and few, visible, turns-of-the-heart by listeners to the message. During a ten to thirteen-year period, religious persecution ensued against her by mainstream Christian clergy, including Oral Roberts University where she had to take a stand and was forced out, as were many others. Minister Wynne says that clergy sought control of her work, demanded she place their people on a board for her ministry, that she join their groups, that she renounce being a pastor because she is a woman, and blacklisted the message by, secretly, telling others not to cooperate and to kick her out of home lodgings. She continued to travel throughout the country with the message and with the persecutions. This forced- wandering devastated the work repeatedly and required continual re-starts. Financial records from the Federal Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) verify her claims of religious persecutions causing repeated financial devastations and restarts of the work in several states. The Internet domain authority, Whois, reports eight different name servers for the official website in 2011, alone.

In Thurston County, Washington the work was opposed when one local pastor appears to have called to the meeting site where Pastor Wynne was meeting with at least one other Thurston County pastor for prayer and Bible Study. It was suggested that another local pastor persuaded the owner with whom he had relationship to shut down Truth Seekers use of the property, although an agreement was firmly in place.

In Lacey, Washington, where Minister Wynne was a citizen, a police officer acted as a favor to a Seattle, Washington parent by approaching the forty-year old daughter and son-in-law members of Truth Seekers Church. The officer used his authority to help the mother convince that Truth Seekers Church was just "so unusual" and they should not be members. The member-decision was "I can't be a member of your church any more". There was never any question to Christ's character in Pastor Wynne and full background checks from DSHS validate that fact – just that the work did not fit the accustomed manner that church is done. The membership fell off and work started all over again. Concern about the incident was made known to the Mayoral office for Lacey, WA, but Minister Wynne is not aware of any results.

Special
Minister Wynne says, that after promptings and prayer for some months, she submitted to, legally, change her first name to "Minister" to (a)stay focused in the work while it is viciously opposed and (b)because she had a peace from God that it would serve Him in the furtherance of the message commissioned to her. "It's hard to forget what you are about and whose you are under special pressures when your name is 'Minister', she remembers. A former website was PastorDee.net, which she ended due to a different divine encounter where Christ gave a prophetic warning against the current trend of self-promotion in pastors, stating that it is one of the things He will be judging in His next move and warned her to stay away from anything that smells like self-promotion; also, to tell other preachers to avoid it.

Encouragement came to Minister Wynne when the Chairman of the History Department for a major Washington University learned of Truth Seekers Church and the sufferings for the work. The History Chair-person, later attended the Truth Seekers Church Bible teaching one Saturday with an interest in Minister Wynne's "against-the-tide preaching" and crusade for Jesus Christ's simplicity. The history Chair commented, "You remind me of Sojourner Truth. You are so much like her. We are studying her as a project right now." "To be likened to Mrs. Sojourner Truth for all those hearts she turned, while enduring persecution and not wavering from the vision that drove her, is an honor", says Minister Wynne.

Ministry Models and Bible Prophecy
It is commonly held in fundamentalist, conservative, and mainline teachings regarding Bible Prophecy that any man-made religious systems will fail against the supernatural doctrines and methods of the Anti-Christ. History records that Christ never authorized first century Christian leaders to acquire financial stability through donations from an unbelieving world, although it is what modern Christian ministers train as accepted ministry method. It is Minister Wynne's contention that "people must change their engrained perspectives to prepare spiritual skills and spiritual perspectives against the abilities of the Anti-Christ now; it is too late then."

The Building-Choir-Incorporation Model
Comparatively, somewhere in church history, someone departed from the Christian authenticity of family to change the measuring stick and identity of church to acquiring a building or to building construction ... complete with lectern or podium and a captive audience. The language of Christianity became "where" is your church, versus who is the preacher or what is the message, or who is your church family?"' Preachers became "speakers" paid to present a message. The simplicity of eating together changed from common love because everyone else hated Christians and became formal "sacraments" sustaining an industry that sells them. Instead of complete focus on individual lives, building construction forced distraction and preoccupation with programs for building "funds". People became more members of a non-profit organization called church and less changed human beings drawn, captivated and devoted to the miracle power of the Holy Spirit to prove the message of Jesus Christ as authentic. The choirs that were pre-70's became praise teams and the attraction became the musical worship event rather than the simple love and power of God-the Holy Spirit in the message and on the preacher, as with the first Christians. This is the method of worship that Minister Wynne says Jesus warned in her encounters cannot serve during the approaching season of the Anti-Christ, when every dollar requires you take the mark of the beast, known as "666".

The Familial-Christian-Worship Model
Truth Seekers adopts the stand that Christ's new move is to abandon the "building-choir-incorporation-model" and return to the end-time "familial model" that Jesus Christ established; and that was the pattern of the first Christians for at least one hundred years.

According to the teachings of Jesus Christ, in the New Testament there is no "building-choir-incorporation" method of church and ministry that most Americans were raised in. In the familial model of the New Testament,persons who believe in Jesus Christ after hearing a preacher tell of Christ and his Kingdom will immediately cleave to the preacher for more learning, loving brotherhood and witness to others. Church is the preacher and the person, assembling is just simply getting together at home like gathering for a Thanksgiving dinner and talking about Jesus, hearing from Jesus, experiencing the family-like fellowship of being together discussing what matters to them about Christ. Focus is upon loving God and one another through instruction in holy living. This was the pattern of all Christians in the first century after Christ's resurrection and ascension. .

In the encounters with Jesus Christ, Minister Wynne says that Jesus emphasized how churches built as non-profit corporations with legality to solicit donations from the general public will crumble approaching the season of the Anti-Christ when everyone who is not a follower of Jesus Christ will hate Christians under the supernatural power of Satan that Bible Prophecy forewarns.

The Holy Spirit
It is believed that the familial model of ministry that Jesus Christ operated in with the first Christians can only work when the Person of the Holy Spirit is the preoccupation of all Christian assembly and the only purpose of every ministry. Bible Prophecy emphasizes the need for a church model built on the person of the Holy Spirit. The role of Truth Seekers of Jesus Christ in Bible Prophecy is to highlight that if Church methodology contradicts Bible Prophecy and is built on human reasoning or causes, that structure must be preserved and its existence must be justified by traditional non-profit management methods. Church, under such circumstances, has to give the public a reason to keep sending money like any other non-profit corporation must do. As in any non-profit corporation, the leadership (inevitably) must rely on the popularity or usefulness of the programs served to the public as the validity for the ministry or church existence; and the cause for the public's continual donation revenues.

Contrasting the non-profit corporation model with the familial model in Bible Prophecy, the Person of the Holy Spirit is the backbone of familial worship. This focus removes pressure upon modern Christians to mingle worship with political movements of society, commercialization of the ministry and entertainment for attracting new attendees. The results can be a return to the purity of worship that first century Christians enjoyed and that is a continuing thread in Bible Prophecy and contemporary interests often labeled "prophetic".

Current Work and Bible Prophecy
Through a series of events over the years, that Minister D.A. Wynne terms "miracles which Jesus Christ performed to uphold His message 'Come out of the Christian System ... come back to Me"', Truth Seekers of Jesus Christ and Truth Seekers Church, eventually, settled in Tumwater, Washington in 2012. Internet search engines take time to reflect address changes. Some Internet searches still yield the College Ave, Lacey WA prayer meetings for Thurston County instead of the Tumwater, Washington address and phone number.

Truth Seekers of Jesus Christ and Truth Seekers Church are still in the "pioneer" stage. The mission of protecting Christian leaders and Christians at-large against the approaching mind-sets that Bible Prophecy reveals will emerge nearer the season of the Anti-Christ continues to be the focus. Sometimes there have been no attendees, other times several, but always the one dedicated member is Minister D.A. Wynne. The message continues to be preached, including the end-time familial model of ministry that was received in the 1999 divine encounter and which she thinks is the major fear that people have. She confidently asserts that, "Bible Prophecy reveals that society is built upon money and that money will be the leverage that the Anti-Christ uses to enslave masses. When many pastors face building foreclosures, the stresses and temptations that scripture says are innate with a "building-choir-incorporation" vision, as well as the temptations associated with similar church planting movements; then our methods, models, the effects upon scripture-integrity and souls will be reconsidered."

Links
Pentecostalism

Whois report on Truthseekerschurch.net

Whois report on Pastordee.net

Official Website for Truth Seekers Church

Christian Prophecy

References:

Oral Roberts University

Culture of Fear

City of Tumwater, Washington

City of Lacey, Washington

Non-traditional Church Planting Movement

Revival Basics

The 70s

Women Pastors, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists and Teachers

Women Pastors – The Timothy Error

Gospel Answers on Women Pastors from Greek Christians