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I appreciate your concern, Grace. But as I told Rocky, I am not sold out to anyone, and I have none of them on a pedestal. God is Who I seek after, His Word is what I have held high, and I will happily walk away from anyone, as I have already done, who demonstrates evil. For now I listen to their teachings which, so far, is based on the Word. There has been no manipulation and no subtle messages, both so prevalent in TWI fellowships. FWI - it took me 18 months to decide to leave TWI completely, which I started considering a good 7 months before being introduced to R&R. They were just one contributing factor to my decision, as well as GSC, Bullinger, a couple of my friends on FB that were in TWI and had already left on their own, Ernest Martin, Joel Osteen, Ravi Zacharias, and a few local friends who had been involved with TWI also. I'm not sold out to any of them either. But I do enjoy reading/listening to what they have to say, and I am thankful for all of them for what they have all shared so willingly.

I appreciate the candor.

Taxi, have you considered that "I can only assume" might really be that you only want to believe? Being human, and pursuant to your acknowledgement that they haven't done you any harm, to what extent have you critically examined sociological factors that might reveal (ahead of the curve, as it were) how long it might take for them to actually repeat the history of the members' four (plus) decades worth of involvement with TWI? Just sayin'

Beautiful letter by a local New Knoxville pastor. I'm going to quote part of it: "Anyway, let me assure you that there are some ex-Way members who have left and found other church homes in this community. Some are members with me in the ministry of NKUMC. Some of them were with the Way in the 70s and 80s. May the Lord continue to provide to you the healing that only He can deliver. He has obviously already begun this work, and my guess is that He did it without the exclusive help of an “anointed” clergy guy! Have a great weekend! Dennis Gaertner, Pastor" --------------------------------------- To me the distinction between how Dennis works and how the Way AND R&R work is Dennis is perfectly comfortable letting Jesus Christ be the head of the body and work in that capacity to heal. To the Board of Pharisees of the Way, and the elitist excommunicated from the R&R group, they don't think this way. To them, deliverance comes not through the work of Jesus Christ as head of the body and to work His capacity to heal, it comes through your behind in a chair listening to them "teach the Word". It comes through their manipulation and control, where they want to take advantage of the simple. It comes through "working a plan" that the head Pharisees came up with a decade ago. Antichrists all. Putting themselves above their savior. Maybe some Way Staff members should go hang out a NKUMC and make some friends. They will be the only ones they have once they are shunned by the Way. Thx for sharing penworks.