Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
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Apostle Dog
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Date: January 06, 2016 03:05AM
I think I can give some honest insight as to why the "shepherds" were so messed up in giving "words" that were wrong. I have already stressed how little qualifications I had to be in a ministry. I think that if anybody knows me that is reading here, they would agree. I was never a shepherd/pastor/elder/ whatever, it was all just the system that we were in. The little group that met in my house to listen to tapes should have been just that, a bunch of church people listening to tapes and hanging out.
One time a very close friend of mine and his wife just moved down from another Living Word church. We had all three been friends for years, his wife and him and me, all the way back from childhood. But the wife was wanting to have a legal separation but the man didn't, and they ask me for my counsel. I told them that they should not separate. I figured that because, and I even said, "because how can you learn to live together by living apart." WRONG, ,,WRONG counsel. They got divorced.
See, there were people, like me, that got into Living Word and had no education to become a pastor or elder, none. Some had ambitions to and some didn't. But in Living Word Fellowship, at the time, they required absolutely no training. The only requirement was to be one of the cool un-religious ones. Or, in some places it took lip service to John Robert Stevens, or kissing up to the established elders or pastors.
Sometimes some of us knew that we were not worth a dam at it, but there was simply no alternative. The only men in the church that could be put in charge other than themselves were arrogant, or space cadets or just too young to do it.
So, I for one am very sorry for my mistakes. I do repent of them. I know that I missed ministering to one woman that I might could have helped and she committed suicide. And I know that I misfired on the marriage counsel, and had I said the right thing maybe they would have stayed together. But I did not have the Word of Knowledge, and I did not have the Word of Wisdom, I did not have the education.
That in itself, that people were set in office much too casually and for the wrong reasons is a big reason the Living Word Fellowship was so far off track.