Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: March 31, 2017 12:03PM
howmidoing Wrote:
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> I have gone through many years of ignoring,
> denying God and seeking other forms of spiritual
> awareness or toying with atheism and Lilith-ism
> (extreme feminism) trying to kill my deep
> emptiness with things that can never fulfill me,
> drinking, drugs, "relationships". Always
> distracting myself but I can say honestly, that
> everything has always come back to Him. I couldn't
> deny that only God saved me when I was a baby in
> the hospital and all the evidence, doctors and
> science said I should die or on the slim chance I
> lived, I would be brain dead and in a wheel chair
> for the rest of my life.
>
> Only God protected me When someone crashed their
> car into mine; Only God was with me when I tried
> to take my life 3 times, no person was there, no
> one helped me, but God. He has kept me - So that
> is my truth. That is how I can say that even
> though I often feel like I don't fit in with
> church folk or others because of what I have
> experienced, I know God is real and He has a plan
> for my life.
>
> The problem we run into as former cult members is
> that God was equated with certain people and
> control instead of the Love of Christ. And people
> will always let you down, it's inevitable. Just as
> we have hurt people in our lives, others will hurt
> us. But Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for us,
> because He loved us first, not because of what we
> have done to please Him, but because of who He is.
> We were not taught to listen to and study the
> scripture (at least not when I was there) and
> certainly not to realize that my relationship with
> God is enough, I don't need "an apostle" to tell
> me what God is saying. Although sound teaching is
> helpful fro guidance it should be from only one
> person or place.
>
>
> Jesus is the way, the truth and the light. "No one
> comes to the Father but through me."
>
> No other religion offers love & eternal life or
> "enlightenment" based in who God is and not on
> what we do.
>
> To me, that's real.
While I respect and honor your belief in Jesus as the way, the truth and the light, I hope you will also respect that not everyone feels the same as you do. While I still believe that Jesus is the reason for the season, I also believe that He is not limited to what a single religion has to offer. I also know that He does not judge others on the basis of what they believe. What I have learned through the years is working for me in part because I have tried to keep an open mind and have built on what I've learned. Healing doesn't always have to come from a Christian source in order for it to take place. I can really bear witness to that. To me, that's real. Peace and love to you.