outandabout

And regarding "possessed" people, most of TWI leadership's way of dealing with them is to kick them out of fellowship, not minister to them like Jesus Christ did. In fact the people doing the kicking out probably had some "spiritual problems" of their own.

I'm SOOOO confused! I thought I was speaking in tongues all this time and now I'm wondering if I've been faking it! But it works sometimes, perfect prayer and all that. Oh well...... Last post? To quote Jim Morrison, This the end, my friend...

"Spiritual Protocol" always reminds me of an incident: A believer couple spontaneously decided to barbecue. They invited some other believers, then some others. THEN they thought the branch leaders would like to come so they invited THEM. Well, you would have thought they just sacrificed a baby to Molech. The branch leader REAMED them up and down, reporoving them for breaking SPIRITUAL PROTOCOL by not inviting them FIRST!!! Needless to say, it wasn't much fun to be in THAT branch with THOSE particular (ordained no less) "leaders."

My brother sold his home and he wasn't a Corps grad. In fact, later they were put on "spiritual probation" and they realized they were happier and never went back. They were put on "spiritual probation" because their home wasn't clean enough. As he said it, they were always going to meetings and didn't have enough time to clean their home. (the rental home, I guess, since they had to sell the one they owned)

Yes. When I look back on it, I am perplexed and credulous that I ever was such. And I am so glad, even though it was not soon enough, that I got out.

It's like being Rip Van Winkle. No knowledge of the music, cultural trends, TV shows, political happenings (I knew who was president, that's about it) for that period of TWI involvment. To this day, if mention is made of something during that era and I have no knowledge of it, I remember, "Oh yeah, that was when I was in The Way." It's a joke between my husband and me now (who was only in two years). The Iran Hostage Crisis? Why, only everybody in the country was following it. It was a big deal. I had to go to Wikipedia to read up on it. I was exposed to the music of 1996/77 because I was out WOW and worked in a little restaurant with the radio on constantly playing the top 40. To this day, oldies from that time remind me of "Yor Dogg Howse." Brings it all back. ("Sweet Sixteen, Dancing Queen") No TV though. Well, we did have a black and white while out WOW. Never watched it though, except "The Gong Show." I remember out witnessing, we were inside an apartment and everybody was watching "Roots." Another cultural phenoma we missed. But we were told it was from the adversary because it sowed racial division. "Who shot JR?" Who the hell is JR? Didn't know John Lennon was shot until the next morning where I was waittressing and a customer told me.

until they kick you out.

Yeah, it was all for the believers. Just like the Corps Chalet was going to be for visiting Corps.

I always thought that "Remember The Way in your will" thing was creepy.

That, too.

And if the giver does not receive abundance, it's because they weren't giving with a cheerful enough heart.

What are they doing there if they don't actually believe God's Word? They obviously don't if it doesn't occur to them to heal people instead of throwing them out. I was at Corps Week and had a breakdown (partly due to being in Mississippi and having the worst time of my life) and no one prayed for me. They kicked me out. I was also signed up to go WOW and didn't really want to go - it was the only option I saw available to me for a new ASSignment. Ah what a great life that was. I'm glad I flipped out. Got me out of there. Would have been a perfect time to get out totally but I still didn't see that TWI was

Remember those yearly Corps Evaluations? I dreaded March. Getting to be judged by my superior. Now March can come and go, just like August.

After awhile it must have taken the whole hook-up time just to announce who's out.

What's the link? I had it but lost it and haven't been there since. Skyrider, I hope you're not done here. I really like your posts.

I threw away my yearbooks from high school and college. Have always regretted it!

Are they still going? And if so, why?

And that's why they are where they are today - sitting in a cornfield of mediocrity. The same group that touted their superiority over "the world" in all areas who never made room for real talent when it presented itself. They gave the opportunities to oversee things based on position or what Corps you were in, not who had the ability. Which reminds me, I was in a music group in my area and I had to be the "leader" because I was the Corps grad. I kept deferring to the guy who knew more than me musically and was a better musician. I was told I shouldn't do that, I was Corps, I was the leader. But he should have been running it. I wouldn't have has a problem with that but the area leader did.

I want to add - praying for healing can work but when it doesn't - who knows? We can get healed and get healed and one day we'll still be gone. We're mortal. I don't understand it all but I do know that condemning people for their infirmities is totally off the Word. Jesus healed people. He didn't ask "What have you done that made you sick?"

It's like I said - We're all going to get sick and die!!! Unless an accident kills us! All the "believing" we can muster cannot prevent it. Our day will come, unless the Rapture happens in our lifetime. We should mourn those we lose, not defame them for not "believing" enough. These people are crazy!! It's beyond common sense. I can't believe I was ever in such a thing! The so-called unbelievers and people "in the world" have more common sense and decency than TWI.

They can condemn all they want, but they will end up dead themselves one day.

How could they condemn people who got sick? Aren't we all in corruptible bodies like The Word says? How come VPW could get sick and no one condemned him? Don't we all eventually succumb to disease and die? (If we don't get into an accident that kills us) Does that make it our fault that we end up dead? If we could avoid sickeness by not sinning, we could live forever in our mortal bodies. Didn't Christ come to deliver us from our corruptible bodies? For a biblical and teaching ministry they sure didn't pay attention to God's Word in that area. I'm sorry you had to put up with so much condemnation through no fault of your own, which I'm sure made your suffering even worse.

How do they get away with being non-profit? Also with the millions they've go squirreled away. Aren't those millions profit?

I remember being at Corps Week where it was announced that the "donation" for the class would now be $100 (or was it $200?). Everyone stood up and clapped. Yeah, that would make it easier to "move the Word." It didn't last long either. Eventually they changed it to $45. That's walking by the spirit, for ya.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.