Amos quote: "This I am not writing to justify anything that happened in the Living Word Fellowship but I would have to argue that whether there or elsewhere in order to spiritually survive one has to adjust their attitude about God's seemly horrible parenting skills. If God were a human father he would almost certainly be brought up on charges for endangering spiritual children."
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I too would like to know the salary of John Robert Stevens, and I'd like to know about fringes like love offerings and free labor on his properties, what sort of properties did he have. I have the feeling he was just another greedy, egotistical preacher with the need to be idolized.
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One thing I have noticed since I have been in a much more traditional church is that elders are not just flunkies and yes men to the "apostle." Elders in the traditional church I go to now actually are under the pastor, but yet they also can vote the pastor out if he gets crazy. It is not a rank system where there is a one man rule. I think John Robert Stevens was sort of like a pope
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jan w. lane Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For 13 yrs. I was a member of the "Walk", > otherwise known as the Church of the Living word, > under the direction of John Robert Stevens. It > fits the definition of Cult in every way > imaginable. Many people have suffered from the > after effects of what happened in their lives &
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The Living Word fellowship was, when I was in it, just like what they have now in "Babylon" churches, just a megachurch, with a bunch of campuses around. John Stevens was always the "senior pastor" and the guys in charge of the "local churches" were like assistant pastors. That is to equate it to today's vernacular. john Stevens was always the bagwan, nobody ha
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