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jeannie (jeannie)
04-27-2005, 10:54 PM
I am re-posting my first post on FN. At that time the saga had been going on for months in the back offices of GGWO. I remember when Tom said he was going to go to Carl alone, demand repentance and demand he step down. I guess Tom changed his mind about that..
I remember when CHS was completely incoherent, could no longer come into his office, could no longer teach ABD, could no longer preach, could no longer walk without help, could no longer counsel a single body member. The leaders wrung their hands and said "what should we do"? I remember when Dave Duff carried around in his briefcase for days a signed letter by then elders, forcing Carl to resign. They were are afraid to give it to him.
I remember when everyone decided Paul should be the one (with his siblings) to attempt an intervention. I remember Paul being reluctant to step in. I remember his friends, behind his back, saying to each other "it is time for Paul to step up to the plate and do this." I remember when they told him they would stand by him and with him if he did. I remember the day they all abandoned him when Carl's wrath turned on his son.
I remember the phone call in December 2003 from Dave Duff telling us CHS "had crashed from the drugs" and was dying. I remember Tom Schaller's rise to power during Carl's near death experience, which was touted to the body as a heart attack. I remember all the lies and the cover-ups. I remember my outrage and horror to realize I had been part of a corrupt group.... knowing they were lying to the people I loved, some of the most beautiful believers anywhere. I remember the dawning reality that there was no way to tell the truth in GGWO. I remember the day I decided to find a way to tell the truth no matter what. And I remember the day I found FACTNet and posted for the first time in fear.. It was a shout over a wall of a crazy compound.
What is occurring in GGWO/MBCS today is a continuation of the same saga. Tom has been preparing for his new kingdom in the atmosphere of deceit and devouring for almost two years. But today is NOT two years ago. We have men of God like P.Graz, Morin, Wood and more who also stepped away from the compound. We have Sandy Cove.
But we still have young people in this atmosphere, as one student said "how hard it is to be there on the property now... how weird it all seems... how you are made to feel like you are off or insane.. but you know what you see is not biblical"
We must not allow the walls to go up once again. We have young people actively exiting and helping others to exit this atmosphere. I pray the affiliate pastors can reach out to these young people and help them. Many of us have several degrees of separation from the compound on Moravia Park Dr. It is natural to forget how bizarre it is and much fear and aloneness there is when you see it for what it "really" is. I remember that fear..
My first fearful post:
Posted on Sunday, February 08, 2004 - 8:33 pm:
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there are really corrupt things happening in GGWO right now.. is anyone aware of them?
cape_cod (cape_cod)
04-27-2005, 11:14 PM
Thank you Jeannie for the above post.
yogi (yogi)
04-28-2005, 12:30 AM
Yes Jeannie, we are aware of them NOW thanks to that courageous post. A HUGE can of worms was opened and will remain open until others are saved from the corruption within the walls of Moravia Park Drive! Thank you for being "off" and warning others of the duplicity and lies GGWO "leadership" practices to date.
yogi
jeannie (jeannie)
04-28-2005, 12:59 AM
I just found an old notebook of mine. I honestly don't know how any of us got out after reading this freaky-deaky mind control babble!
10/18/95 Wednesday Lunch Rap with Pastor
Holy Silence. Is.41:1-2
Keep Silent- spiritual islands in man in the midst of stress, islands of God's love.
OVERTHINKING IS THE WORST ENEMY. Thinking becomes my provision not God. Thinking forms an opinion. How can you think with objectivity? How can you understand every thought you have? Thinking without understanding is overthinking. Overthinking in a trial of your faith, when you are accused falsely or suffering for righteousness's sake is self evaluation and it is not Grace evaluation.
Nothing causes deeper wounds than overthinking. Women are in deep cycles of depression from overthinking. Hyp-fo-na-o = putting your thinking above what God thinks. It is REJECTING THE PULPIT. We can prevent our discipline/ we can select our discipline. We are judged the most for our overthinking. The best way to discern God is in silence. In silence of consecration / in silence consider Jesus Christ/ only then can you hear him.
The still small voice meant silence. Tuning into His channel and not overthinking. You will be judged for the secret things(your unconscious volitional pattern not guarded by the heart)
Overthinking gets people into affairs, stress and secret resentment, don't choose what is convenient.
End of Rap!
isabella (isabella)
04-28-2005, 01:25 AM
Thanks Jeannie,
Glad the post was seen and the can got opened.
I hope the young people know not to go anywhere with anyone in the church/cult unless those leaders have repented and denounced the doctrines and the habits of TBS/GGWO. And, they should have a way to de-program the people.
My fear is that these people will go from one church/cult to another and they will unless there is total accountablity, including their own confessions and repentance....out loud, written down and posted for public consumption.
Love & Prayers,
Isabella
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 01:37 AM
"Thinking without understanding is overthinking. "
Speaking without making sense is revolting.
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 01:38 AM
Whoever has old notes from raps, pull them out and put some highlights on this thread. It would be so interesting!!
Thanks Jeannie, for doing that. Got anymore?
Anovus
jeannie (jeannie)
04-28-2005, 01:52 AM
yes.. transcribing now!
c_la_verite (c_la_verite)
04-28-2005, 01:53 AM
jeannie... and to think that we have notebook after notebook of this kind of stuff!
jim_kennedy (jim_kennedy)
04-28-2005, 01:58 AM
Jeannie:
It took alot of courage for you to do what you did. You put many so called "pastors" to shame. You have helped so many, me included. I know many more will exit this cult. Thank God for all your prayers and hard work.
"The truth shall set you free."
Jim
yogi (yogi)
04-28-2005, 01:58 AM
"The conscious miiiinnnnddd; is the unconscious
and the unconscious miiiinnnddd; is the elbow out there!!"http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/lol.gif
Aw, the pure logic of Carl Stevens' mind! Just like a steel trap it is...http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/uhoh.gif
yogi
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 02:02 AM
I remember Betsy Dovydenas reading from her hand-written personal notes,
"Our hearts are like menstrual pads."
Oh Jeannie,
This is really exciting! Find us some real zingers. You are sure to win a prize for best T-shirt idea.
Anovus
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 02:07 AM
CLV,
Go for it. Dig up that hidden treasure, that dung of great price!
Look, this is why this is so exciting. Junior's messages are on tape. His raps are not. To actually read the bile that came forth during the raps would be such mind-openers for those thinking of leaving. And think of all of those who have never been to a rap! This will be truly educational. Not to mention darn right entertaining for the rest of us!
Anovus
c_la_verite (c_la_verite)
04-28-2005, 02:18 AM
i'll see if i can find some old "biblical psychology" notes... that should be good for a few "pavement pizzas" it will be just like the good ole times... (c)rap & pizza!!
on second thought, maybe i'll just have coke and go home.
(Message edited by C_la_verite on April 27, 2005)
arguendo (arguendo)
04-28-2005, 02:33 AM
"I remember Betsy Dovydenas reading from her hand-written personal notes,
"Our hearts are like menstrual pads."
Oh Jeannie,
This is really exciting! Find us some real zingers. You are sure to win a prize for best T-shirt idea.
Anovus"
I feel faint. Such rough language, such vulgarity. My frail sensibilities are overwhelmed.
cape_cod (cape_cod)
04-28-2005, 02:37 AM
I remember reading from my hand-written personal notes from a rap, otherwise known as hidden treasures.
Note to self...
"Anovus is of the devil."
hmmm, that isn't helping, is it!?!?
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 02:38 AM
Oh no! Arguendo turns into a simpering "God's Complete Woman" type! Are you starting to talk with a pseudo-spiritual breathlessness? Saying things like, "I just lllhhhhuuuuuuv the body!"
Say it isn't so!
Anovus
jeannie (jeannie)
04-28-2005, 02:40 AM
Ok, here is another one.. I can't transcribe much more with throwing myself through a plate glass window (as my friend Joni Fortin always says..)
Arg.. I need a martini..
11/1/95 Wed. pm. service with Pastor
Is 14:12-15 Mt.16:15-23 Gen.2:16-17
Always have an alternative wherever freedom is.
Freedom is always released through representative authority. Lucifer was God's representative authority over the angels. In the Garden of Eden Adam was God's representative authority. He needed to receive that of God but never outside of God's nature. Never in his experience. Satan knew not to tempt Adam because he was the head. So he tempted Eve. Now tempted, Eve became sensually seductive. She was under Satan. Eve looked at Adam in a seductive way- she was deceived by cockatrice eggs of the serpent. And with her new information and knowledge/ hatched in libido waves. She walked out of her creative design and into the tree of knowledge. It was the first time Eve experienced the knowledge of being on her own. Knowledge gained by the experience of a pleasure anew.
Love not the world/ being seduced to having to have it. Satan made a choice within himself without a tempter.
Why is sin a pleasure? A supernatural enjoyment but comes from eggs hatching. Satan will give you provisional support and bless you with pleasure.
1Cor.6:17-18 A supernatural inroad. Volition = you choose to be tempted in the church age/ we have freedom - man is the representative authority. With eternal values as a system/ every test has a provision or a way of escape, providing your volition is for God. Runs towards God versus away from God. Is.31:1
Women! Organize your outside life! Whatever she wears/ her house/ her schedule in divine order to glorify God. Inner Beauty submits to authority.. to representative authority.
Pleasure = Supernatural excitement. What an entrapment! Demons trying to get the final blow! Bend to the devil equals imprisoned mind! Peter was God's representative authority. A safeguard for women in a devil's world!
Mt18:15-18
Bind the teenager's sin and loosen the teenager from sin. God's nature around the child- bend the devil also! We represent God's Finished Work authority over Satan. Satan! You take your hands off!
Job 5 Satan and the angels made an eternal decision to reject Christ. Rev.4:6, 6:10
End of the message.
(Message edited by jeannie on April 27, 2005)
c_la_verite (c_la_verite)
04-28-2005, 02:42 AM
get that girl some smelling salts!!!!
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 02:42 AM
Cape Cod,
I believe worse things were said about me than that. Only this time, they were probably all true.
Anovus
c_la_verite (c_la_verite)
04-28-2005, 02:45 AM
on second thought get some smelling salts for me!!
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 02:46 AM
Hatched in Libido Waves:
The Life of Carl H. Stevens
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 02:53 AM
Cape Cod,
I could tell. It's embarassingly obvious.
Anovus
bells_joy (bells_joy)
04-28-2005, 02:54 AM
I LOVE YOU, JB.
jeannie (jeannie)
04-28-2005, 02:59 AM
I love you too Bells...
Scary postscript to the above transcribed notes of mine.
In the margin of my notes during this message, I wrote "I want to be a grace chick!"
Someone please find me a plate of glass... or a glass of wine..
boss_martian (boss_martian)
04-28-2005, 02:59 AM
Just when I thought it could not POSSIBLY get any weirder!
Totally unrelated, but every time I hear people talk about "raps", I think about old Beretta episodes. Makes me want to call Carl a jive turkey! Heavy.....
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 03:03 AM
Indeed Boss,
I always thought the use of "rap" in TBS was laughably retro. Like Carl was trying to be cool. Only it was already ten years out of date.
Anovus
Jeannie,
That was priceless. Looking forward to more. The only problem with posting this stuff is that we'll all go wild making jokes about it.
minutus (minutus)
04-28-2005, 03:09 AM
Man, I'm sorry I threw all that stuff out. I was just thinking today how good it feels to be able to laugh out loud at the twisted crapulousness coming out of the Mother Ship. Thanks, Jeannie.
cape_cod (cape_cod)
04-28-2005, 03:12 AM
"Eve looked at Adam in a seductive way - she was deceived by cockatrice eggs of the serpent."
I always knew that it was ALL the woman's fault!!!
Damn those cockatrice eggs.
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 03:16 AM
Totally crapulous.
jim_kennedy (jim_kennedy)
04-28-2005, 03:28 AM
I threw ALL my stuff out. The tape I wish I'd saved was Last Looks, Last Words, Last Thoughts. That's the one where Junior was driving back from Framingham and claimed to have a vision of "The Great White Throne Judgement." Talk about fear tactics! As far as I know it's the only record of him claiming to have this prophetic gift, God talking to him. I know some anti cult people who could put it to good use.
Jim, wokbts@aol.com
ps. There was no representative authority in the Garden. They were both created in God's image. I always thought Satan talked to Eve because she was better looking lol. Hey, the final creation of God was a woman, what's that tell you? (I know, I've been single too long.)
pps. Cockatrice eeegggssss...Don't listen, don't think, don't judge. Just turn off your mind and let Junior do the rest.
boss_martian (boss_martian)
04-28-2005, 04:02 AM
This may have been posted before, but would someone tell me exactly what a cockatrice egg is?
That would be the grooviest. (Sorry, that whole rap thing has gotten me started.)
boss_martian (boss_martian)
04-28-2005, 04:08 AM
I just used this miraculous thing called Google. This is what I got:
Webster's Christian Series tells us that Cockatrice means, "The king-serpent, a serpent imagined to proceed from a cock's egg." A viper is, "1) A serpent . . . whose bite is remarkably venomous, 2) A person or thing mischievous or malignant (See entry for Stevens, Carl)}
jim_kennedy (jim_kennedy)
04-28-2005, 04:15 AM
Boss, the verse is Is. 59:5. The true context is Isaiah describing the sins of Israel and how corrupt they had become.
Junior taught that if you listened to anything about him or "the ministry" you were engaging in evil. Just one "evil report" could enter into your mind and later "hatch." Then you would be vulnerable to being "taken over" by satan himself and become a member of the conspiracy against Stevens and GG. On the Taking Notes thread Schaller alluded to this when he talked about people being "of the scatterer." The result is when you leave the church you're old friends won't even talk to you, they don't want one of those "eggs" in their mind. Pretty sick, huh?
Jim
heather (heather)
04-28-2005, 04:16 AM
hmmmm dare I ask this question..I got the serpent part..its uhh the egg thing im having a hard time with..whats a c*ck... I know it can be a rooster but they don't have eggs
jim_kennedy (jim_kennedy)
04-28-2005, 04:24 AM
Read the verses, it refers to poisonous spiders and snakes.
j_graz (j_graz)
04-28-2005, 04:38 AM
let's not forget that some of the bites one may recieve are neurotoxic-Cobras-dealing with the nervous system and some are hemotoxic-Vipers-dealing with the blood stream
If one recieves evil input from the neurotoxic type of 'devil bite' it will damage your nervous system...which is what CHS attributes most forms of neurosis to.
If the bite is from the hemotoxic, your in deep dudu also...This will effect your physical body.
The implicaiton is the the pulpit...insulates us from the these kinds of bites...you know?
comments of questions anyone...who will be first?
jeannie (jeannie)
04-28-2005, 04:50 AM
P. Graz, I forgot that part of the teaching. Your words bring it flooding back. I remember David Henke explaining to me that GGWO was a fear/shame based group. I remember thinking "no, we are a Finished Work/Grace based group"(though quite messed up) but reading "If one receives evil input from the neurotoxic type of 'devil bite' it will damage your nervous system..." now that sounds very scary indeed...
bob_brinton (bob_brinton)
04-28-2005, 09:31 AM
So the idea is that 'the pulpit' protects you from evil through what God passes down to His 'representational authority', who interprets His words for us and protects us from having to personally rely on the Holy Spirit. That makes things so much less complicated. We don't any longer have to rely on a fickle God by faith. We can rely on 'messengers' that we can see and audibly listen to. And they think having a pope is bad. At least he's not infallible in everything.
lee (lee)
04-28-2005, 01:35 PM
I've got it! I know exactly what GGWO pastors can do to make a living when they find themselves out. With the treasure trove of those kinds of notes, instead of selling hotdogs at the porn theatre, they can write porn books. They've got the makings of great screen plays and books right in their own hands.
That would certainly put a new spiritual twist into the porn industry.
minutus (minutus)
04-28-2005, 01:51 PM
A pulpit that teaches the Bible instead of twisting it should protect people from damage in their lives.
linda_kern (linda_kern)
04-28-2005, 02:14 PM
anova...."totally crapulous"..what a good way to sum things up!
lalalu (lalalu)
04-28-2005, 08:54 PM
Back in the day, I would write notes from CHS' sermons or rap session in my Bible when I didn't have paper handy. Wish I hadn't of done that. Ruined a perfectly good Bible.
Here's a few gems:
3/7/79: "God says, go hide yourself and wait for me. Go hiding yourself means man's preparation for man's responsibility for God's plan and provision."
1/6/76 CHS told us from the pulpit to write this down: "I went to my own funeral and put my priority first not to hold on to a single thing."
No date: "Through resting physically and spiritually together you experience multiplication. Rest is in doing that which moves you to compassion. Food is in honoring that."
No date: Hearing much, obeying little, produces deception."
2/3/80 Convention: "If you don't want to deny yourself and pick up your cross, Satan will be with you all the way. If you want to live in bitterness, reaction, or jealousy, Satan will be your buddy. God has a plan to reveal Jesus Christ to us. That plan includes a lot of strange things that we would not even think are from God but God has bidden it".
No date but my favorite: "A person who isn't right with God isn't cordial".
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 09:01 PM
linda,
Yes, crapulous is a great word. I would take credit for it, but I got it from minuts's post 15 posts up. He stated it in noun form: "crapulousness."
Minutus: hat's off to your creativity.
Anovus Noncrapulus
anova (anova)
04-28-2005, 09:09 PM
lalalu,
Speaking of crapulous.
Great ridiculous quotes!
Anovus
ralphwells (ralphwells)
04-28-2005, 09:13 PM
Lallu - you have me http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/rofl.gif over this one
3/7/79: "God says, go hide yourself and wait for me. Go hiding yourself means man's preparation for man's responsibility for God's plan and provision."
I remember that one! And I remember thinking, "Pastor must have really had a bad day http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/crazy.gifthat makes no sense at all."
herroyalhighness (herroyalhighness)
04-28-2005, 09:36 PM
Jeannie -- Great post!! I wonder if it hurt like hell when Eve "walked...into the tree of knowledge." She probably had a huge egg on her head, got a bit woozie and that was why Adam thought she was hot --oops, I mean thought she was now seductive...maybe it's just that cockatrice eggs got him all turned on!!!
j_graz (j_graz)
04-28-2005, 09:48 PM
Dear Students,
A board has been established for you to communicate amongst each other in privacy and confidentiality called ‘Safe Haven’.
The board is completely private to all except those who have been referred by an existing member. It is designed to protect your privacy.
http://www.every-nation.com/phpBB2/
E-mail me if you have any questions, we'll try to answer them....
P Graz
ralphwells (ralphwells)
04-29-2005, 12:47 PM
Excellent PGr!
j_graz (j_graz)
04-29-2005, 02:20 PM
Let's clarify this a bit.
There are a lot of students who wont even speak to the pastors of their home churches! Some of the students are being told it is evil to ask questions of the leadership in Baltimore based the notion that the church is obviously fruitful, so those that are asking questions and writting letter are just 'decieved' and don't want the cross.
Ask yourself a question first. What is real fruit. What do you think a genuinely fruitful christian life looks like. When the word 'fruit' is used in Galatians 5:22-24 the NT deals with the quality of an inner, upward and outer life...love, joy, peace etc....
In contrast - Gal 5:19-21 expresses a bit more of what we've actually been seeing!
If the first group (love joy ...) things are in the church and abound, then I would agree it is fruitful.
There are men and women who've been esteemed and accepted by these men who are attacking them for years. What happened? Now that they ask questions and disagree, they're "off". The standing ovations continue in services etc...
Now I'm very happy that Pastor Schaller has said this past Sunday that the affiliates are free to make any choices they want and that he and leaders will love them and so forth...
There are two problems with this
1.Actions speak louder than words and he hasn't stopped the rap-attacks, or corrected the rap-attackers or repented to any of those who've been talked about.
2. I'm glad he's telling the church in Baltimore...what about the rest of us
This is just a sad state of affairs.
If you're a MBC&S student with questions about your church and school and want to speak with any of the pastors who've been named, marked, called wolves etc... you can e-mail me.
You can ask anyone on this board - I will not tell anyone you have contacted me.
I will then refer your name to the moderator so when you register, you'll get approved. The board is locked so only those we refer can get in.
This goes for affiliate pastors and missionaries also.
This is not a 'anti'ggwo' board and we will not let it deteriorate to that.
There are other forums for that tone of discussion. We will not attack your pastor/s, but are simply available to help connect you to someone you trust.
ralphwells (ralphwells)
04-29-2005, 02:36 PM
"This is not a 'anti'ggwo' board and we will not let it deteriorate to that"
Amen P Gr!!!
This is a "people" board. People who need people, and people who help people.
Also, as P. Graziano said, you will NOT be "outed"
Blessings to you seekers.
Ralph
1COr 15:10
jeannie (jeannie)
04-29-2005, 04:10 PM
I am posting a letter received recently. It is from an overseas affiliate pastor's wife. It has been edited to keep the identity private. I am posting it because it is clear view of the deceptive thinking holding many in bondage to a very sick leadership. I am hoping some of the pastors reading the board could counterpoint the deception. I am hoping your words will equip students reading the board to counteract the twisted teachings they are receiving from the leaders in charge at Moravia Park Dr...
The Letter:
Thank you so much for telling us about your leaving the ministry. We are very sorry that you are not any more under the same authority with us. We have not read any of the gossip or accusations from internet against any pastor. We have been told years ago by Pastor Stevens that we should not listen or read anything evil from others. That gives a place for the devil to work in us. We know that without Pastor Stevens and Pastor Schaller we would not have the knowledge of the Finish Work of Christ and the vision for the lost. We have heard also that many lies have been told about Pastor Schaller, but we know him. He is sinner, but we all are. But he is on fire for God to preach. And we want to go forward with him and GGWO. We know that these are the end times and Satan is hates the work of the children of God. He wants us to be negative towards each other. Pastor Stevens and Pastor Schaller taught us that we should never speak evil towards one another, and that is the Word of God. We should love one another!! Those two men of God has paid the great price preaching the Gospel and leading Churches, having many burdens and still they stand strongly for God. (of course Pastor Stevens cannot do it so well any more because of he is sick and we understand that). We are very sad about what has happened in Baltimore and maybe in all the world . But if everyone, pastors included would humble themselves and pray for God's healing then He could do much more than before. We could get more people saved and into heaven with us than in those past years. The enemy would like to swallow all of us, so we would not be happy and serve the Lord with all our hearts. But I hope that we will not let him to get us.. may God help us all!! We love you all and pray for you, and hope that we would meet each other some day somewhere - at the latest in heaven!
ralphwells (ralphwells)
04-29-2005, 04:38 PM
http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/sad.gif
j_graz (j_graz)
04-29-2005, 04:53 PM
It is amazing how deep the roots run. These dear folks are faithful servants but just look at some of the statements and nuances of the letter and THINK
Thank you so much for telling us about your leaving the ministry. We are very sorry that you are not any more under the same authority with us.
(this really is the root of the problem, the word 'under' reflects something much less than the heart of true authority. True authority never places itself OVER others...but beneath, alongside and all around - besides aren't we under the authority of Christ together regardless of our church or affiliation???)
We have not read any of the gossip or accusations from internet against any pastor. We have been told years ago by Pastor Stevens that we should not listen or read anything evil from others.
(What about clearly defining truth and error, what about maturely discerning good and evi? There is no place in this environment for any crtical thinking skills or objective analysis)
That gives a place for the devil to work in us.
(Since when is the Light a playground for the devil? When we walk in the light...our fellowship is with the Father. All of our deeds need the light for our own safety. Leadership is accountable to the body, despite what it claims. It 5:19 describes the format for bringing issues to the leaders, it doesn't forbid it. Is it gossip for the elders to recieve the witnesses that Paul describes here???)
We know that without Pastor Stevens and Pastor Schaller we would not have the knowledge of the Finish Work of Christ and the vision for the lost.
(We can certainly be grateful for the input of others people, but just becuase someone has done right by us, doesn't preclude us from correcting them when they desparetly need it)
We have heard (from where, did you check the sourses and make a determination or just dismess them because of the forbidding the culture of the ministry projects towards this kind of issue?)
also that many lies have been told about Pastor Schaller, but we know him. He is sinner, but we all are.
(this is precisely why accountability is so necessary...we're all sinners....very well said here)
But he is on fire for God to preach. And we want to go forward with him and GGWO. We know that these are the end times and Satan is hates the work of the children of God. He wants us to be negative towards each other.
(it is just amazing that the predisposition in this church has always been that any correction, or expression of a need for correction is considered negative. "Love correction and embrace it"..."he loves those he chastens" Correction is beautiful and it makes meek people very beautiful)
Pastor Stevens and Pastor Schaller taught us that we should never speak evil towards one another, and that is the Word of God.
(speaking evil? what exactly is that. Was Paul speaking evil of Demas, or others he mentioned)
We should love one another!!
(We do...in biblical action and truth Prov 27:7)
Those two men of God has paid the great price preaching the Gospel and leading Churches, having many burdens and still they stand strongly for God.
(any standing we do should never incurr a debt to those following us. we serve because it is a priveledge)
(of course Pastor Stevens cannot do it so well any more because of he is sick and we understand that). We are very sad about what has happened in Baltimore and maybe in all the world .
(very sad)
But if everyone, pastors included would humble themselves and pray for God's healing then He could do much more than before.
(but, you can't just ignore indescepencies or you'll repeat them!)
We could get more people saved and into heaven with us than in those past years.
(I wonder how many have been lost by our refusal to correct things at home base...those who've been marked and attacked could still be with us serving and moving forward - way beyond where we are now)
The enemy would like to swallow all of us, so we would not be happy and serve the Lord with all our hearts. But I hope that we will not let him to get us.. may God help us all!! We love you all and pray for you, and hope that we would meet each other some day somewhere - at the latest in heaven!
ralphwells (ralphwells)
04-29-2005, 05:29 PM
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away. (Job 32:21-22)
yogi (yogi)
04-29-2005, 10:16 PM
Thank you for your profound insights into the complexity of the subtle spiritual abuse found within GGWO Baltimore and those affiliate ministries not willing to embrace the truth Pastor Graziano!
yogi
j_graz (j_graz)
04-30-2005, 12:04 AM
Ok students...apparently the leadership in the College has said:
"It's all rumors. Nothing said in classes to cast dispersion on home church pastors."
I know for sure it is NOT rumors. You have called some of us and quoted verbatim what was said, and we believe you. But, you're there and if its possible, you need to stand up as well. Let the college leadership know what's happening directly. Tell them who, what, when and where and bring a witness with you. (if it's possible) You're not little children.
If you want to talk, use the above mentioned board.
If you need help - mawagaman@yahoo.com
There are bunches of people who will help you, including a very trustworthy family in Baltimore who told me if you needed it, he'll foot your plane fare home.
I am not suggested you leave, I'm suggesting you stand and then leave.
If you stand, we'll stand with you.
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