Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

That is a shame that it turned out to be a self fulfilling prophesy. John himself certainly set things up to make that happen. However, that is the way it goes, he had no idea what sort of woman he was going to fall for, and he had no idea what sort of man Gary Hargrave was. John's problem was that he was swayed by the adoration, both of them, Gary and Marilyn both knew how to make him feel adored, the whole time, setting things up so that they would control the church that John Stevens built. I do not for a minute think that JRS was a deliberate scammer like these two. He was human though, and he did not have the sort of spiritual power and authority that we thought that he had. He was certainly taken in by these two. It's a shame that the living Word Fellowship went the way it went.


changedagain Wrote:
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> O.K.--I finally found it. Once you read it,
> you'll know what I'm referring to. I'm only
> sharing an excerpt, which contains the relevant
> part. The comment was posted by 'Invisible' on
> June 26, 2014:
>
> Invisible Wrote:
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> > Something to ponder:
> >
> > At Grace Chapel of Southgate Probably in (1966
> )
> > or 1967 - what would occur - was made known -
> no
> > less than 15 years - before it came about.
> When
> > the church was yet but a hand full of people,
> > this was spoken.
> >
> > What was spoken - would have been recorded on
> reel
> > to reel - for it was spoken - before the days
> of
> > the cassette recordings.
> >
> > I was present at Grace Chapel - in Southgate -
> in
> > 1966 or 1967 - when John was standing in the
> > pulpit and saw a vision of the future and spoke
> > prophetically concerning all he was seeing - -
> of
> > the day when he would not be leading the
> church,
> > and it was shown to John, that a very young
> man,
> > too young to have the responsibility for the
> > church, was leading the church, instead of
> John
> > leading the church - and this young man was
> > leading the church astray, off the tracks and
> away
> > from God. And being shown this - John cried out
> to
> > the Lord, for the church because the church
> was
> > suffering all kinds of sufferings as a result
> of
> > this young man leading the church astray and
> these
> > sufferings John said , were far reaching -
> even
> > beyond the church - because the church was
> being
> > led astray.