Well, being 55 (I"ve been associated with Ministry doctrine since the early 70's, I last left the Ministry in '86) and looking over my "spiritual career"--taking PFAL and intermediate class and going WOW for a year-- Through everything I can honestly say the whole affair has been a very bad joke with a stupid punchline.
Allow me to explain.
From the get-go, the whole believing is recieving schtick is bull. I think just in the last few years I've proven that a couple hundred times.
1. A year before I was to leave Florida, I realized I needed a car. Somebody approached me with the proposition: help me sell my ship and I'll buy you
a car. I must have gave him 20 leads. Needless to say no sale. No car.
2. My car broke down prior to the above. I asked a friend to look at it. He looked at it and said he need some other equipment. I told God to take care
of it and let go and let God. Six months later, the car was beyond repair. In my building everybody got a car in one form or another, except the
person who put his faith in God. Yours anonymous.
3. Before I left Florida, I wanted to say goodbye to the girl I'd lived with for 3 years. A friend of mine and I even prayed over it. I started looking
for her a year and a half before I left. Two and a half years later, I still haven't heard from her. This after searching, and leaving word with
everyone that would listen, leaving messages on the net, setting up ,a website on the net, posting in every social group on the net, and paying
someone to locate her. Just a sidenote: the guy I paid was a scam artist.
When I went to the religious guy in my building about the car. His first response to me was: "Money can't buy happiness." Then he turned around and bought himself a new car.
His other basic excuse was: "Its not God's will." So, I told him, your telling me God doesn't want me to have a car?
It was to reminiscent of the last time I severed ties with anyone in the Ministry. In my 40s, I was in a deep depression. I wanted to know where this great life God had planned for me was. Going to the person I knew in the Minisrty, I asked him. His response to me: "You got tricked."
I got tricked. I obeyed the man of god by going to college. rather than getting blessed, as promiced, I have a $50,000 loan I owe the government and no idea how I'm going to pay it off.
One of my friends in Florida told me I didn't have enough faith. I told him How much does it take? I moved a thousand miles from home hoping things would improve.
Before that, while I was learning the ropes in my profession, I lived on potatoes for three years. That doesn't take faith. Of course, after I learned my profession I couldn't get back into it, so that was useless.
Don't think this who believing is recieving thing is over yet. Read The Secretor anything in that vein. It teaches the same line of bull.
beliving----->recieving the punchline of a very bad joke
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Well, being 55 (I"ve been associated with Ministry doctrine since the early 70's, I last left the Ministry in '86) and looking over my "spiritual career"--taking PFAL and intermediate class and going WOW for a year-- Through everything I can honestly say the whole affair has been a very bad joke with a stupid punchline.
Allow me to explain.
From the get-go, the whole believing is recieving schtick is bull. I think just in the last few years I've proven that a couple hundred times.
1. A year before I was to leave Florida, I realized I needed a car. Somebody approached me with the proposition: help me sell my ship and I'll buy you
a car. I must have gave him 20 leads. Needless to say no sale. No car.
2. My car broke down prior to the above. I asked a friend to look at it. He looked at it and said he need some other equipment. I told God to take care
of it and let go and let God. Six months later, the car was beyond repair. In my building everybody got a car in one form or another, except the
person who put his faith in God. Yours anonymous.
3. Before I left Florida, I wanted to say goodbye to the girl I'd lived with for 3 years. A friend of mine and I even prayed over it. I started looking
for her a year and a half before I left. Two and a half years later, I still haven't heard from her. This after searching, and leaving word with
everyone that would listen, leaving messages on the net, setting up ,a website on the net, posting in every social group on the net, and paying
someone to locate her. Just a sidenote: the guy I paid was a scam artist.
When I went to the religious guy in my building about the car. His first response to me was: "Money can't buy happiness." Then he turned around and bought himself a new car.
His other basic excuse was: "Its not God's will." So, I told him, your telling me God doesn't want me to have a car?
It was to reminiscent of the last time I severed ties with anyone in the Ministry. In my 40s, I was in a deep depression. I wanted to know where this great life God had planned for me was. Going to the person I knew in the Minisrty, I asked him. His response to me: "You got tricked."
I got tricked. I obeyed the man of god by going to college. rather than getting blessed, as promiced, I have a $50,000 loan I owe the government and no idea how I'm going to pay it off.
One of my friends in Florida told me I didn't have enough faith. I told him How much does it take? I moved a thousand miles from home hoping things would improve.
Before that, while I was learning the ropes in my profession, I lived on potatoes for three years. That doesn't take faith. Of course, after I learned my profession I couldn't get back into it, so that was useless.
Don't think this who believing is recieving thing is over yet. Read The Secretor anything in that vein. It teaches the same line of bull.
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