Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: April 21, 2017 09:43AM
Hi! I'm new to the group. I've only gone back a few years' worth of posts, I haven't read them all, there's so much to read! Some of the stuff blows me away.
I was in the Walk from '74 to '84. I spent 5 of those years at Shiloh. When JRS died I was living on Blix and answering phones on Kling. For several years, when things struck me as strange, I just filed them away as something I didn't understand. When people left, like the Corbetts and then the Finneys, I just wondered why, but never questioned it. And sadly, I never saw them again, so I couldn't even ask them what had happened. I just accepted it. I had babysat their kids! I totally looked up to them and loved them. I just didn't get it, but I questioned very little.
Things got strange for me after John died. Instead of running from the Walk, I backed out slowly. There was so much going on, no one even noticed. I honestly don't feel bitter for the time I spent involved with TLW, but I do feel a sadness. It kind of ruined me from ever really getting involved in another church. I've always felt conflicted. I do think that there are spiritual principles that JRS taught that are real.
(I do, of course, remember being afraid that if I left I would get hit by a bus, or a train, or something. OMG!)
Reading about John Miller, I was in disbelief. And sorry to read about Rich Lindy and David Boney.
I've much more to read. I'm glad I found this Forum.