Welcome Tmason. I love it when efforts to brainwash the kids fails. You mentioned in another post/strand that you knew and loved Dan Statton. His name has come up a few times recently on the forum. JRS used to talk about Dan a lot. Whenever, JRS and Dan had a telephone conversation, JRS would share about it from the pulpit. In the 70's I flew to DC to attend a wedding and attended a service there. Then I became very ill with the flu and couldn't fly back to LA. I had been in a hotel but Dan insisted that I stay at his home while I recovered. He was so engaging. I was kind of shy then but a chatter box and I can remember having great conversations with him. I even shared some of my doubts but he convinced me otherwise. When I learned (secondhand) of the circumstances surrounding his eventual leaving TLWF and then returning, I like to think that eventually the light bulb came on for him (secondhand opinion), but he returned to be restored to TLWF so he wouldn't be estranged from his family (he was aging). According to JRS, Dan had a brilliant legal mind but Dan drank the Kool-Aid and was as sucked into it as much as any of us.
I recall JRS ministering to a family whose child had been sexually abused by a relative. JRS put his hands over the child's ears and prayed that the memory banks of the child would be healed so the child would not remember the abuse. I don't what to make of that now.
I recall JRS ministering to a family whose child had been sexually abused by a relative. JRS put his hands over the child's ears and prayed that the memory banks of the child would be healed so the child would not remember the abuse. I don't what to make of that now.