Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: August 15, 2015 09:40AM
Apostledoggie,
That guy in the sports coat you wrote about in the parking lot of the Valley Church who offered you the commission was Sam the Sham. You can see him every night on TV offering prosperity, wealth, healing, sight etc. Each charismatic church has their own "special hook."
jhorning posted some zingers. I hope he doesn't mind me reposting some of them.
jhorning Wrote In Part On 1/7/11:
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> In the spirit of full disclosure I am going to
> post the responses I received concerning an
> earlier post. These came on Wednesday, January 5
> via email. The email was sent buy Matt Walkoe, who
> is listed as a Pastor, Producer, Living Word
> Publications, and oversees the school located at
> the Church of the Living Word in North Hills. I don't believe there is any expectation
> of privacy when post are made on the internet or
> sent through an email.
Matt's response:
> > "When John died I seriously considered leaving the
> Valley church because he was the one that
> commissioned me there. However, I had a very deep
> experience with the Lord and He gave my spirit to
> Marilyn. That’s very real to me. When people
> bring up these past issues about Marilyn or Gary,
> I feel like the man born blind in John 9.
> “Whether he is a sinner I do not know; one thing
> I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.”
> Gary and Marilyn have to answer to the Lord for
> any mistakes they may have made, but personally
> I’ve experienced a deeper and richer walk with
> God born out of my relationship and connection
> with them. I know that this isn’t real to
> everyone that sat under John’s ministry, and I
> understand that."
>
> So Gary and Marilyn sinned and they MAY have made
> mistakes, but Gary has given me sight?
>
> Colossians describes Christ in part this way: The
> Son is the image of the invisible God, the
> firstborn over all creation, He is before all
> things, and in him all things hold together, He is
> the head of the body, the church; He is the
> beginning and the firstborn from among the dead,
> so that in everything He might have the supremacy.
>
> Please, can someone tell me why God, after sending
> His Son to die for us, would give Matt's spirit to
> Marilyn? To paraphrase Paul; Was Marilyn crucified
> for you? Was she raised from the dead?
>