Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
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Apostle Dog
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Date: March 21, 2016 02:01AM
The thing that has always been crazy in the Living Word Fellowship, and has proven out over and over again in my search within Christianity, that the PEOPLE, the ones without a title, without a salary and huge car and house, the "little people" in the church are ALWAYS, so far at least in my quest, ALWAYS the ones with the integrity. I have been involved regularly with four churches for after I left Living Word, and and the one true shepherd I know is in a little Pentecostal church down the street with about ten old people as members. he is in his seventies and and has always supported himself as an automobile mechanic. Even to this very day, never has he been paid, he is a lay pastor that the second largest Pentecostal denomination in the world sends out to dying churches.
My wife saw a woman walk into the last church I went to and she was crying, she was broke, she was living in a run down hotel and she asked the pastor if he could help her financially was they were kicking her and her kids and her dog out on the street. He said "We don't have funds to cover things like that." He walked on out and got in his BMW and drove off. Someone in the church took her back to the hotel and paid her bills.
See, there is a church, but the crying shame of it, is it is the PASTORS and other hotshots whatever they want to call themselves, that are turning people against Christ.
My grandfather was a member of a church back in the 1930s I guess, and his son wanted to be baptised, but decided to put it off a week till his mom could be off work and be there for the baptism. He was hit by a truck and killed that week. My grandfather was a very humble man. The next week they were all in church and that "pastor" brought a word about baptism, and told the story of my mom's brother, he one that was killed, and said that because he put it off, he was burning in Hell, and he went on about the agonies and fire and the distress, etc.
Where I would have beaten that pastor down and kicked his teeth out right then and there INSIDE the santuary, my grandfather just got up with his family and walked out. None of them ever walked into a church again, all of their lives.
One of my favorite sayings, I say it all the time, is that Christians grow spiritually IN SPITE OF their leaders, not BECAUSE OF their leaders.