Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Posted by:
Apostle Dog
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Date: December 16, 2015 05:01PM
I think there might be some things that are legitimate in the teachings of John Robert Stevens. I don't have any tapes to listen to now, since a member of our church stole all of our tapes, (hell I didn't really care, and don't now,) but I would like to compare some of them to the bible if I had some. I have compared the few I have listened to from the web sites and there are some pretty fancy scripture twisting. The only question in my mind, is 'how much of that scripture twisting' is on purpose? I have to wonder if he really did set out to deceive people that he knew were worshiping him and why did he allow them to worship him? I know that a friend of mine always reminds me that John was "all the time" telling people they shouldn't worship him, but you know what, that is wishful thinking on my friend's part, because I heard a hell of a lot of tapes and I don't recall that. If anything I heard him encourage people to focus on him because after all it was important for him, "the apostle" to break thru, for their good, for the good of the whole world, after all, the was the chosen vessel. No, I wonder if the man was warped,of if he believed all of that, or if he was a deliberate deceiver much like Robert Tilton and others. Of course I will never know. But I still wonder.
I know that there was probably lots of sound teaching mixed in that, and there was some sickness in it too. I know that he spent a few minutes with my son shooting off firecrackers, that he probably was also a pretty nice guy. But like me and all of the people listening here, JRS was a mixture, and he is fair game to examine because he was a public mixture, someone that set himself up to be an example, so it is my right to examine that man, it is OK to examine the example. I do not accept the "touch not God's anointed" theory, not as it applies to people like this, not as it applies to Jim Jones, not as it applies to Hitler or Obama or Bush or whoever. If they get on stage or behind a pulpit or in any way hint that they are special and they should be heard and they should be followed, then they put themselves in the position to be examined and to be scrutinized.