Dr. E.C. Fulcher, Jr.

What is the Truth About Truth House?  Simply put, Truth House Ministry is a Bible oriented church. 

In Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4, Jesus said, “…It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”  He was quoting Deuteronomy 8:3.  This is one of the seminal verses around which, Dr. Fulcher has built his church.  C. S. Lewis, the great Christian Apologist said, “You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.”  Dr. Fulcher made his choice.  For him, Jesus was and is the Son of God and as such, everything he said must carry enormous weight.

 As a young man growing up surrounded by well-known preachers, Dr. Fulcher noticed that when he would ask them a Bible question, they would invariably answer him beginning with, “Well, I think…” or  “We have always believed…”  What they never said was, “The Bible said…” or “It is written…”  Therefore, Dr. Fulcher set out to develop a church that centered on the Word of God as it is written, not as men told him what it said.  Dr. Fulcher teaches that for every Bible question, there is a Bible answer.  The truth about Truth House is this:  Truth House is a group of like-minded people who assemble themselves together to hear the Word of God preached in its purest form with spiritual answers for spiritual questions. 

As you might imagine, building such a congregation was far from easy.  The religious world was filled with hypocrisy, false worship, and people who compromised the Word of God to fit their wants and desires.  To be honest, many of those people did not know that they were being hypocritical or worshiping falsely, because they had never been taught correctly.  As the Bible warned, they had accepted the traditions taught by men and had not been taught what the Bible actually says.  Everyone has heard numerous preachers decry money as being the root of all evil.  Why?  Because they say, it’s in the Bible. Only it’s not.  Nowhere in the Bible does it say that money is the root of all evil.  But it does say in 1 Tim 6:10 “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” This is what Dr. Fulcher means by “every word”.  Traditional churches drop one word from Paul’s statement and that deletion changes the whole meaning of what Paul was trying to say.

In 1970, Dr. Fulcher began his “Crusade For Truth”, he was 18-years old.  That crusade has taken him around the world and across decades to reach and assemble his present ministry.  From the very beginning, he committed himself 100% to developing a ministry that centered around the Truth.  He suffered cold and hunger and came under severe pressure from his family and friends to do something else.  But Dr. Fulcher was intent on putting God first.  He would not give in to the pressure to deny what he knew to be the truth even if that meant sleeping in his car rather than a nice warm bed.

In 1975, Dr. Fulcher was invited to preach at a small church in Level, Maryland.  He preached a sermon entitled “The Hour of Your Visitation” that struck a chord with many of those in attendance.  Soon afterward, he moved the group to Havre de Grace, Maryland where he founded Truth House Ministries™ Church, Inc. and The Present Testament Ministries™.

Dr. Fulcher set out to establish the strongest church in the world.  Not the largest.  Just the strongest.  He was looking for people who were willing to, as the Bible says, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God…” (2Tim 2:15).  He wanted to bring dignity, honor, and respect back to God’s word, purely because it was God’s word.  And he wanted to find a people who wanted that, too; a people who believed that the Bible was the Word of God and who wanted to hear it preached right for maybe the first (and last) time in history.

And that’s the Truth about Truth House.

Written by Eric B. Ruark and Tanya J. Tillman