Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: March 23, 2015 03:45PM
Thank you lily rose. I read the sermon by John F. MacArthur about demons. I liked it. His observations are very informative and insightful without a lot of speculative nonsense. I learned a better perspective from his studies also. It’s always refreshing when someone preaches as a mere mortal just trying to understand clearly instead of declaring, “God showed me this or this is an infallible word from God.”
Getting back to the monster residing more within than without (I agree with larry bobo about this) I can describe the problem. When reading the scriptures, which I love, the truth is there. I know that Jesus comes to us by the Holy Spirit. It’s wonderful. The peace, comfort, and just letting go on our part ----- for Him to take over the battle and do all the worrying about life is keeping me from going totally gray.
In the midst of the above reality, I am plagued by imaginary scenes from the past of Bowman Littleton, John Miller, JRS, Ron Court and Tom Edvalson along with his wife all doing battle against the freedom we have in Jesus as described in the Bible. All the preaching about submission: Submit, submit, submit. You have no rights. You’re in rebellion to God Almighty if you don’t give your spirit over to the Divine Order which God has restored in the Church of the Living Word. Thousands of hours of preaching, tapes, This Weeks, manuals and the like over and over and over. (Out of respect for Bowman, who I really liked, I like to think that he got out of the Walk on his own accord)
I don’t think its demons. It’s a battle to reverse brainwashing. It’s a battle to read the Word without interference from past bonds and those forced, errant interpretations. I would like to initiate a redistribution of energy patterns in my own brain according to an entirely new paradigm. A paradigm with a different Jesus. A Jesus who is not dictatorial. It’s the humans who want divine order, God seems to like secret peace in the middle of chaos (at least for the present time). It pisses me off when so called ministers of God are so arrogant that they intrude upon a person’s personal relationship with God, or more to the point, so arrogant that they intrude upon God’s personal relationship with each one of us. Show some respect for God; worry about your own relationship.
I loved many of the people in the Walk, but I think I would have been better off not knowing about the Walk. I know, it’s debatable. Reading the scriptures without “The twisting lies of strict obedience to church authority” always haunting my spirit may be something I will never experience again. The more this cult falls apart, the more garbage that besmirches its character ----- the better. It all helps to erase and diminish what they preach/preached.
It’s better than it used to be. I didn’t pick up a Bible for nearly thirty years after leaving the church, but now I read it occasionally to post on this forum. I can draw a certain amount of victory from observing how former members of the Walk do their battle/discussions on this forum. That makes me somewhat of a leach, an anonymous leach.
P.S. I always feel ridiculous after posting a post because without a professional editor my posts always seem so disjointed. Sorry.