Sagehen Wrote:
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> I agree with much of what "larry bobo" posted May
> 1, 2017, I too had to ask myself why I fell for
> the hook! Mine took me back to the Charasmatic
> teachings in the early '60s and led right into
> what JRS was teaching in the early '70s when we ,
> my late husband and I joined. I also see this is
> still the focus of many groups still today, that
> being, "We have more Light than the others"! To me
> that is deadly, I started getting a true
> foundation when I dumped all I had heard from
> anyone except what the Bible's written Word said
> and and what my spirit confirmed to me was Him.It
> has been a long journey but I believe that is what
> God really wants for me, not following what
> someone else says is "truth"! It has to be a
> personal choice for me on a daily basis.I had to
> search my own heart, no one made me fall for the
> lies, that was my doing. Just my own journey, I
> can't say what others must travel.
I also agree with a lot of what larry bobo said. And very much agree with Sagehen. I feel very much the same.
I know that God looks at the heart. I think many of us were searching for something more than we had found in our previous churches. Something to give ourselves to. Also, the "psychic" element, that John could see what was inside us that we couldn't see in ourselves, and give us a Word. It was hard to resist.
For 30 plus years I've been hauling around a box full of TLW stuff. I decided to open it up the other day. I haven't looked at it in years. It was mostly This Weeks (including the This Week inserts) "Gleanings" and "Off the Wall" (produced in Shiloh) and a few tapes and books. I looked at the "Words" I got from JRS and other pastors. So much of it was trivial stuff I had asked for direction on. How much better off would we have been if we were told to go seek/ask God ourselves what we should do? Learn to hear from God for ourselves?
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> I agree with much of what "larry bobo" posted May
> 1, 2017, I too had to ask myself why I fell for
> the hook! Mine took me back to the Charasmatic
> teachings in the early '60s and led right into
> what JRS was teaching in the early '70s when we ,
> my late husband and I joined. I also see this is
> still the focus of many groups still today, that
> being, "We have more Light than the others"! To me
> that is deadly, I started getting a true
> foundation when I dumped all I had heard from
> anyone except what the Bible's written Word said
> and and what my spirit confirmed to me was Him.It
> has been a long journey but I believe that is what
> God really wants for me, not following what
> someone else says is "truth"! It has to be a
> personal choice for me on a daily basis.I had to
> search my own heart, no one made me fall for the
> lies, that was my doing. Just my own journey, I
> can't say what others must travel.
I also agree with a lot of what larry bobo said. And very much agree with Sagehen. I feel very much the same.
I know that God looks at the heart. I think many of us were searching for something more than we had found in our previous churches. Something to give ourselves to. Also, the "psychic" element, that John could see what was inside us that we couldn't see in ourselves, and give us a Word. It was hard to resist.
For 30 plus years I've been hauling around a box full of TLW stuff. I decided to open it up the other day. I haven't looked at it in years. It was mostly This Weeks (including the This Week inserts) "Gleanings" and "Off the Wall" (produced in Shiloh) and a few tapes and books. I looked at the "Words" I got from JRS and other pastors. So much of it was trivial stuff I had asked for direction on. How much better off would we have been if we were told to go seek/ask God ourselves what we should do? Learn to hear from God for ourselves?