TheycalledmeJonah Wrote:
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> One aspect of the Living Word Churches which
> always made me feel weird was that as a church,
> they are always pushing toward something -
> breaking through. What does that even mean. It
> seems as though all the words brought are meant to
> "fix" us so that we can break through into
> something. Through the words brought by the senior
> pastors (gary, JRS, etc.), concepts are presented
> that have a sense of urgency. Like a few years
> ago, there were a few words brought about the
> blood moon and its significance and it tickled
> everyone's fancy for a few weeks to a month. And
> then the next thing comes in a word to interest
> people, and the cycle continues.
>
> To me, this cycle has a few negative effects. One
> of the effects is when words come bringing some
> new concept of something we need to attain, we
> still haven't gotten the last thing that the
> pastor talked about. This always made me feel like
> I wasn't good enough, or couldn't grasp what they
> were bringing, and I felt like I could never catch
> up. Made me feel inadequate. I never knew JRS and
> my whole walk experience has been with G and M
> being the leaders. The new "revelations" that came
> were mostly just JRS messages repeated to us. I
> always thought it was funny how often we were told
> "This is the missing piece to breaking through!"
Thank you, TheycalledmeJonah. I always thought that I was the only one who could never understand what the heck was so urgent all the time. Why were there always new levels and breakthroughs that seemed exactly like the old new levels and (non) breakthroughs? I only left the fellowship ten years ago, so I couln't even count the new levels and breakthroughs that were ALWAYS emergencies. It can really wear you out...kind of a perpetual state of hypervigilence and PTSD.
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> One aspect of the Living Word Churches which
> always made me feel weird was that as a church,
> they are always pushing toward something -
> breaking through. What does that even mean. It
> seems as though all the words brought are meant to
> "fix" us so that we can break through into
> something. Through the words brought by the senior
> pastors (gary, JRS, etc.), concepts are presented
> that have a sense of urgency. Like a few years
> ago, there were a few words brought about the
> blood moon and its significance and it tickled
> everyone's fancy for a few weeks to a month. And
> then the next thing comes in a word to interest
> people, and the cycle continues.
>
> To me, this cycle has a few negative effects. One
> of the effects is when words come bringing some
> new concept of something we need to attain, we
> still haven't gotten the last thing that the
> pastor talked about. This always made me feel like
> I wasn't good enough, or couldn't grasp what they
> were bringing, and I felt like I could never catch
> up. Made me feel inadequate. I never knew JRS and
> my whole walk experience has been with G and M
> being the leaders. The new "revelations" that came
> were mostly just JRS messages repeated to us. I
> always thought it was funny how often we were told
> "This is the missing piece to breaking through!"
Thank you, TheycalledmeJonah. I always thought that I was the only one who could never understand what the heck was so urgent all the time. Why were there always new levels and breakthroughs that seemed exactly like the old new levels and (non) breakthroughs? I only left the fellowship ten years ago, so I couln't even count the new levels and breakthroughs that were ALWAYS emergencies. It can really wear you out...kind of a perpetual state of hypervigilence and PTSD.