Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: May 28, 2017 02:09AM
lily rose Wrote:
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> kbyrne said, "When did it happen, where did it
> happen for me that it stopped being God's word and
> it was John's word? When was the line crossed?"
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> Something I jotted down from Why People Fall
> for Charismatic Leaders: "When you reinforce a
> very strong "us" a lot of group psychology will
> kick up. There's a lot of conformity, there's a
> lot of not questioning things because other people
> seem to be going along with it."
Invisible, I don't see JRS as my spiritual father at all. Too much of what he taught was destructive to me and I have had to unlearn it. Further, I doubt God placed me in JRS"s church. That was my own decision and doing. I probably didn't even seek God about it. That said I certainly respect those who find it in their hearts to see him as a spiritual father.
I posted the quote from Why People Fall for Charismatic Leaders because I though it captured how we can get sucked in deeper and deeper into something that we want to believe is spiritual but in reality it is off. I recall a few years ago Corboy posted the findings of a study that those in the inner circle have a harder time seeing through the hype of a charismatic leader. I was not part of the Blix inner circle. But I have often thought that if I had committed myself to them, I probably wouldn't have left the Walk before JRS died. I mentioned a while back a friend, Susie Pugh, kind of an independent thinker. When I reflect, I think her comments and insights about JRS and Blix influenced me to question some things. In particular, when the focus on JRS, his breakthroughs, becoming Christ in the earth become the more dominant thinking in the Walk, I had reservations like a line was being crossed, but I remember wanting to conform via the intercession. Had I been part of Blix inner circle, the conformity would have been demanded and I might have been influenced into complete conformity. I guess, to sum it up, perhaps being part of the inner circle can make it more difficult to be objective about a charismatic leader.