Invisible, I'm not completely sure where you got this information, but I was there and remember it differently. I believe he had three ceremonies across the US and it as called The Rainbow Connection. I thought the Anaheim ceremony was on October 4, 1980. To make sure, I went to Ancestry.Com and searched JRS' divorce and marriage records. Here are the results: Divorce: Name: Joh
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Yes, she did. However, I had some involvement with Martha, her children, etc. In the earlier days of their marriage, they were both declared to be Apostles. She used to preach in the churches, too. Near the end of their marriage, I was aware that she was "embezzling" money from the churches. She drove a fancy car, she dressed ostentatiously, rarely came to services, and snubbed the
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Yea, verily, Saw Enough. John Miller had a walk God before going to Coniah Chapel. He followed John as he believed him to be a true apostolic ministry. He lead the intercession because he believed in the power of prayer, not because JRS commissioned him to. His allegiance was always to God and seeing His Kingdom come. After JRS' death, John was devastated, but he continued to be a be
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JRS had several doctrinal influences in his belief system (as do pretty much everyone!) Folks are focusing on the Latter Rain Movement. But he was strongly influenced by Aimee Semple McPherson as well. His family moved to L.A. for his father to study in her College (reminescent of Shiloh University) to become a better minister. JRS as a child sat at Sister Aimee's feet and was great draw
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Paul, I have always respected your insights. In my mind, you are a prophet in the true sense. God speaks through you. I have always believed in a Universal Church -- no one denomination nor doctrine had the whole pie. Every joint supplies. From my background, I searched on my own long and hard for a minute-by-minute relationship with God. I started attending LW because at the time it was in
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Chaos1952 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have made a discovery about myself that has been > a breakthrough for me tonight, and I thought I > might share it. I have discovered that I have > been mad at John Stevens for thirty years or so > because he didn't make arrangements for someone > responsible enough to be over the Living Wo
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I have to say that was not my experience. Jesus' name was brought up constantly around me. I read my Bible and memorized a lot of it and could quote it verbatim. I checked context always. I knew the Scriptures verbatim. When almost the whole church switched NAS version, I stuck with KJV. Perhaps in some of the churches, they didn't really know the Scriptures. But yes, many of the
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Could someone help me with inline quotes? Even if I hit reply to a post, it still comes as a stand alone. I hate to respond without context.
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In reading Lorena's quote, to be fair, she didn't say she helped create the Christmas truck. The musicians were sitting around, getting drunk, thinking about JRS, and went out. No planning, no thinking of anything in ministering to the neighborhood. In fact, they just said they were from That Studio and never mentioned The Living Word. It stayed that way. Just a bunch of "frie
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I'm not sure this has gotten through, but the Scripture is Luke 12:31.
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The article never mentions how many lights there are.
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