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paleface
Chaos, I read the PFO write up on FF. That was quite a diatribe. Someone went thru a lot of work to try to discredit Francis. There was a reference in there to this: "John Robert Stevens and the Church of the Living Word ('The Walk')," Spiritual Counterfeits Project Newsletter, September 1976; and Todd Ehrenborg in Walter Martin, The New Cults. Santa Ana, Calif.: Vision House, 1980.
Has anyone ever seen this? It's unpublished or out of print. Hard to find. Anyone have a copy?
Paleface, that's a good article. JRS was off on a tangent, a mile off, but by the time that line of thought reached the next generation, it is now a universe off. Placing a value on the spoken word on the level equal or now even above scripture gives these new age leaders the right, at least in the closed structure of the Walk, the right to order people to do things that are unscriptural, such as get divorced. It will be interesting to see just how far the Walk goes. I think it is fertile ground for a major situation at any time. At some point, they will "give a word" to break up somebody's family and it will be the wrong person's family. Or, it could be that Gary and Marilyn will just sell out all the property they have accumulated and take off and let the "sheep" wonder around alone till they find another guru to follow.