Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Posted by:
changedagain
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Date: March 01, 2022 12:18AM
Don't kill my plants! (fool me twice's encounter with 'the Apostle to the Kingdom'):
Posted by: fool me twice
Date: March 24, 2019 01:57AM
Onion wrote:
<Fool me twice: How many hours did you work to earn that whopping weekly pay?
I would estimate at least 60 hours a week.
60 is likely the correct amount of hours. I should add that for $35.00 weekly I got room and board (an unfinished, musty and dirty basement) Once I got my raise to $75.00 a week all living expenses were mine to pay. Yes to be 'selected' for this opportunity to serve my marriage was rushed and we were in Iowa two weeks later.
changedagain wrote:
<I recall shortly after joining the cult I was working as an apprentice for a guy in the church that owned/operated a local painting business.>
I also had that same privilege to work for a different KB as a painter. I did painting on both the JRS home and the Blix house. One day while I was scraping paint on JRS's house, a job that is not only quite dirty but also causes a lot of paint chips to fall into your eyes since no productive gear was a thing with KB's. JRS stepped out of his house and scolded me because I had failed to somehow prevent the paint chips from falling into his flower beds. "That paint has lead in it and that will kill my plants" Not that lead paint could be harmful to you or your eyes. Actually that was the only time JRS said a single word to me outside of a service.
Posted by: Onion
Date: March 24, 2019 02:38AM
Fool me twice - I would love to hear any and every story where JRS' mask slipped and his true motivation was exposed. Dick Holbrook helped a lot with that and there must be many more stories that "coulda-shoulda" been red flags but we were intentionally blinded. By deception and now we know, by paint chips.
Does the exposure of their horrible motivations ever reach the end? Not so far.
Posted by: fool me twice
Date: March 24, 2019 05:17AM
Onion - Speaking of the mask of JRS brings up another memory. I, along with everyone else, was told early on not try to speak to JRS after a service or any other time. His time was considered too important for him to be bothered by just anyone. Honestly with him being the pastor of three churches (his choice by the way) and primary overseer of nearly a hundred, I get it that he needed to guard his time.That said you would be hard pressed to find many church pastors that think like that. My thoughts about it now are that he could not wear that mask 24/7 and had no desire to be bothered by his cult members. The red flags were many and we did see them it's just that we were indeed blinded. It would be interesting to know if there is even one former TLWF member did not have at least one, or several, family members that saw those red flags from the beginning. I sure did!