Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: September 21, 2018 05:08PM
In the light of recent discussions, I feel it is important that we clarify the use of certain terms to describe our experiences. This is because of the severity of the effects TLW has wreaked across our landscape, and desolated harvests that should have been fruitful.
I would like to start with victim: anyone who was adversely affected by the culture of TLW, either by an individual or corporately. That would pretty much include everyone at sometime or other.
It is one thing to be victimized, but quite another to identity as a victim. This is an important distinction and the most vital one pertaining to our healing. Our relationships here can become quite simple; those who no longer identify as victims are to lend a hand to those who still languish in victimhood--a neighborhood no one should live in.
The other concept is blame. This has been the cause of much confusion in many of the discussions.
Blaming ourselves for every misstep in life, large or small, just adds insult to injury. We are talking errors here, not sins. We made an error in signing up with TLW; we did not commit a sin.
Errors require correction (healing) while sins infer blame. (I think we have all been punished quite enough already.)
Everyone, of course, is free to blame themselves if they wish, but jettisoning that baggage makes moving forward a lot lighter, faster, and easier.
Up ahead: FREEDOM.