Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
I think if I were going to design a church, I think I would make all the ministries volunteer jobs. Everybody just work for a living, and there would be more than one elder with no top dog, none, zip.
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I think in my church, even if we were on the front-line of every great thing God was doing, we wouldn't talk about it. We would just go about our business day by day. Eventually, a few of us would...
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changedagain Wrote:------------------------------------------------------->> I'm not sure if I can care about someone who> doesn't have a ministry title. That's a radical> concept, lily...
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I've been reading these posts for a couple of years and thought I would weigh in now. I came into the Walk as an impressionable young teenager in the late 60s. My parents actually came to a service...
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"... and a much greater understanding of the human condition"I like that.
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wonderfully written, slandjt--and welcome to the board. I can relate to your experience, as I'm many that read these posts can as well. I dropped out of college (1 year from graduation), I cut off all...
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Welcome SlandJT. I am always amazed at the difference in the churches in other parts of the country than they were in the South. We never had all of those abuses I hear about. I recall people asking...
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Welcome slandjt and thanks for posting! It’s interesting to me the common threads that all of us have shared that are categorically denied by TLWF. For example, being told to lie to your parents – the...
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I am just curious as to why so many of us are still affected by having been in the walk. What is the power that it seems to hold over us? Why do we keep coming back, looking for validation and...
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Who arranged my first marriage? Well, that is complex. First of all, unless you were dating someone in the walk, be it your local branch or one of the other approved branches, you were walking outside...
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I was in the walk from around 1970 until around 1983. Which local body did you attend? I was mainly in the Campbell area church under Howard Klein, and then in the Coniah Chapel group under RD...
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Jan,Part of the answer, for me, is simply the overwhelming amount of exposure, and what is does to your brain. It's not easy to shake off:21 years of involvement, which included:-attending...
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I think for some of us the hurt goes very deep. We came in by our own choice in our teens and 20's. These are very formative years for a young adult. We opened up deep. We swallowed the whole...
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John knew how to sell his ministry. His charisma really drew people that were looking for something to fill the void in their heart. I believe there was some authenticity to what he did, which made...
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I hope somebody will post here that were in the following churches: Knoxville Tennessee, Memphis Tennessee, Detroit Michigan, Houston Texas, Gainsville Florida, Cedar Key Florida, there are others...
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Great question Jan. For me I think the hold on my thought process is because I haven't thoroughly forgiven. I have my moments but under stress I lose it. A few years ago when I read factnet, I was...
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I too have been pretty bitter. The thing that is making me snap out of it some, is the realization that I could not have possibly done things better than the leadership of the Living Word Fellowship....
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I have been told wrong or they are lying. I have been told that Marilyn sent out a word for most of the churches to California or the Shiloh area in Iowa. Their website says:“In the 1990s, many...
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"Their website says:In the 1990s, many congregants of the smaller churches and home meetings chose to relocate in order to attend the churches originally founded by John Robert Stevens. Since the...
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