Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: February 27, 2014 11:35AM
larry bobo wrote on 02/08/14: 04:03pm: “TLWF went from a movement without leaders to one with more leaders than any movement I know of, especially with the implementation of designated relationships.
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Mark 10:42-43 --- “Calling them to Himself, Jesus *said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them. But it is not this way among you.”
‘Not This Way’ among you.
John 17:23 --- "I in them, and Thou in Me."
Alan of Lille --- God is an intelligent sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
Voltaire --- God is a circle, whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Are TLWF members and myself, the only people on earth who don’t understand? If Jesus and the Father are within us, then the center is within us. So many people understand and live their lives this way: philosophers, mystics, normal Christians and normal, well adjusted, intelligent humans.
I hate hierarchy. I’m beginning to realize all the scriptural teaching against it by Jesus.
Hierarchy takes the center from being within you and puts it elsewhere; in another person, in an institution, in a magnificent temple - (there’s one just down the street from me), in a leader, in a chain of command, in a bully, in that which is false.
We neglect that which is within, and end up yearning for a blessing from our bully leaders. We create our own ‘wasteland’ by having received a false word.
I’m guilty. There is much 'catching up’ to do. I will not be studying anything from JRS. No hierarchical teaching for me. No leaders, No leaders, break the spell, entrust yourself to the spirit words of Jesus and be centered and free.
I don’t believe we received “the truth” in the Walk. How else can a person explain the latter day, overall propensity to produce leaders upon leaders upon leaders; to produce “trickle down” blessings and “permissions” through the chain of command? It’s wrong. It crosses out the purpose of the Holy Spirit within us.
I don’t need some leader to tell me, “It’s Okay.” The Spirit Itself can do that, as well as much, much more.
Freaking cults, freaking hierarchies, freaking wrong focus, let it all pass away with the other garbage slated for extinction.
(Sorry, I still have much to “vomit up” from the past ---- thanks for this forum)