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From TWI's website, this is their stand on healing: "To claim and manifest God's healing, we believe on the positives of His Word, not the negatives of the world. When we become immersed in the Word and start living according to God's promises, we find that He is able to bring us health and peace." You have to be good and "live according to his pomises", nevermind the unconditional love He has for us or the fact that God is merciful and heals us when we least expect or deserve it at times.

We are still required to jump through hoops and to "do good works" according to what TWI considers good works. This is from their website and speaks loud and clear, imo, about how they haven't changed: "To claim and manifest God's healing, we believe on the positives of His Word, not the negatives of the world. When we become immersed in the Word and start living according to God's promises, we find that He is able to bring us health and peace."

We are told to go to The Way's website on the internet, but not to any other sites.

We are still treated like mushrooms and Rosalie is a "prophetess" and a "pastor" and don't you even think about questioning decisions from the BOD.

Pretty soon she's going to have to step down, if for no other reason than because none of us can stand to look at her.

They pass out lemons to make it easier to pucker these days, rascal. They're worried we might unpucker.

Just in case you were wondering, all you 'cop outs' who post here are possessed....according to what I hear in fellowship, anyway.

door to door is not dead. :(-->

Aerosmith - Walkin' The Dog/Back In The Saddle/Last Child Kiss - God Of Thunder/Love Gun/Strutter/Black Diamond Rainbow - Man On The Silver Mountain/Mistreated Bad Finger - No Matter What Yardbirds(Jeff Beck) - Shapes Of Things/Jeff's Boogie Guess Who - These Eyes/American Woman/No Sugar Tonight Led Zep - The Ocean/Custard Pie/Nobody's Fault But Mine/The Wanton Song/Ten Years Gone/Sick Again/Achille's Last Stand

He wasn't wrong, Oak! He just made bad decisions in his personal life; it doesn't make all the ministry stuff he did wrong. Revelation changes and with new leadership there will be changes. It's the new dynamic church and it will continue to change to meet the needs of the people. There MAY have been SOME people who were treated unjustly, but they probably had it coming in other areas of their lives anyway, so don't cry over them. I can guarantee you that the above justification is very close to what they say and what the kool-aid drinkers believe. It's just sickening. -->

Can I stay, ex? -->

Searcher, I thought you were an ex-TWI(t)! You ask good questions and I have appreciated your posting here. Please come back to visit...unless excathedra exorcizes the place.

Well, I've been following this for a while not wanting to vote or post, but if views is going to become an issue then subtract 1 view for every post or at least every other post for the number of times I've viewed it. And, it looks like a few other people have "viewed" this thread more than once like I did. I had a boss who used to say that she didn't want to hear any complaints without solutions to accompany them. I'm interested to hear how Zixar would run his own website. Sorry, it just gripes my a** when people complain about something that is completely voluntary and FREE. Someone does work hard so we can play with one another and I think that should count for something. If that makes me an SOB, then so be it.

Now I don't know if I posted on the right thread. :(--> Ex, I think you are a prominent poster who would leave a huge hole in the board if you were to leave. (That means no vacations, too.) We all seem to feel disfunctional for being involved with a cult - some more than others. Some get over it, others continue to second guess most everything because of having been taken advantage of. I feel like a fish out of water here most of the time, but I get a lot out of the posts and it helps me to post and get things out of my head here since I don't have anyone else I can talk to. So selfish or not - I post. :D-->

Wow! is right! Thanks for sharing with us. It does sound a lot like TWI, just different terms. Mark & Avoid, Cop-out, and we didn't have a formal term for the fade, but definitely the best way for most people to leave, just not as easy when you're family is entrenched as you mentioned. Searcher, don't let TWI learn about the birdfood terminology or they'll start using it! :D--> Sometimes you have to have thick skin to post on the internet, other times you have to decide to ignore the things that get your blood boiling. That's why I avoid some threads. I just get too peeved and complaining about it isn't going to change anyone's mind. I post on several different boards too, and some are always butterflies and rainbows, others seem to always have a fight going on. You pick what you want to watch - just like tv. No one's forcing anyone to be here. (This is NOT directed at anyone....just to be clear since everyone seems ultra-sensitive today for some reason.) I pretty much like everyone here, but some do irritate me more than others. That's life. It's like that in real life too, but they can see me when I wince and roll my eyes when it's in person. Thank God for the Internet!