First time the Bible made sense to me. Had always wanted to know about speaking in tongues. Learned how to develop my personal relationship with God. Learned how to recognize His still, small voice. Real heart-to-heart fellowship with great people. Learning and growing spiritually.
I don't know that I ever thought it was the real deal. I joined to save a relationship that should have been chucked out the door in the first place. I spent the next five years trying to understand how it could be considered the real deal.
I had since I was a child had a real desire to have a personal relationship with God, and the church I was in didn't provide that. At best their prayer life was a hit-or-miss proposition to an arbitrary jerk of a God who might turn you down if He had gotten up on the wrong side of Heaven that morning; and who enjoyed making His children miserable 'to keep them humble'. PFAL answered many of my questions and put me on the track to getting answers for the rest. I guess that was where I found my personal answer to Matthew 5:6.
For me it was The Word. I finally started to understand all the things they avoided in church.
Phil. 4: 13 has been my rock thru some bumpy times. I realized thjat if God is on my side and I am His kid, I can stand against anything, whether the adversary or the WC. Thank you God for being there.
As a typical 19 year old who knew little or nothing about the bible, I was taken in by the slick marketing and the confidence. I wanted to have the bible make sense to me, and my church didn't really make the attempt.
Wierwille seemed to ahve the answers and I didn't have the skills to rebut him.
I WANTED what ever it was that made these people so confident, so peacefull.
I was really suprised that upon completeing the class, that i was not immediately transformed into one of those I admired so.
OK, I`ll admit it, I was thoroughly dissapointed. Everyone around me was saying isn`t it great??? I assumed that it was my lack that I failed to have seen the greatness. I kept doing what everybody said would help me see and walk the greatness...classes...wow...way homes...copres...
I just kept thinking if I did what I was told, someday I would *get it*
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Ham
I thought I had friends there. It seemed real enough for a while.
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rascal
I thought that we really were in a spiritual battle, that God needed me on the front lines.
I was resolved not to weaken no matter what the physical circumstances were.
To consider or do otherwise, was to be defeated by satan.
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mstar1
youthful foolishness and near total lack of practical insight mostly
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First time the Bible made sense to me. Had always wanted to know about speaking in tongues. Learned how to develop my personal relationship with God. Learned how to recognize His still, small voice. Real heart-to-heart fellowship with great people. Learning and growing spiritually.
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I don't know that I ever thought it was the real deal. I joined to save a relationship that should have been chucked out the door in the first place. I spent the next five years trying to understand how it could be considered the real deal.
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Bolshevik
Ephesians 6:1,2
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Jeaniam
I had since I was a child had a real desire to have a personal relationship with God, and the church I was in didn't provide that. At best their prayer life was a hit-or-miss proposition to an arbitrary jerk of a God who might turn you down if He had gotten up on the wrong side of Heaven that morning; and who enjoyed making His children miserable 'to keep them humble'. PFAL answered many of my questions and put me on the track to getting answers for the rest. I guess that was where I found my personal answer to Matthew 5:6.
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Out There
Way back then... It was the young Hottie sitting next to me in twig who told me it was.
Did you know the word Gullible is not in the dictionary?
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For me it was The Word. I finally started to understand all the things they avoided in church.
Phil. 4: 13 has been my rock thru some bumpy times. I realized thjat if God is on my side and I am His kid, I can stand against anything, whether the adversary or the WC. Thank you God for being there.
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As a typical 19 year old who knew little or nothing about the bible, I was taken in by the slick marketing and the confidence. I wanted to have the bible make sense to me, and my church didn't really make the attempt.
Wierwille seemed to ahve the answers and I didn't have the skills to rebut him.
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rascal
Wow oak...I was the same way.
I WANTED what ever it was that made these people so confident, so peacefull.
I was really suprised that upon completeing the class, that i was not immediately transformed into one of those I admired so.
OK, I`ll admit it, I was thoroughly dissapointed. Everyone around me was saying isn`t it great??? I assumed that it was my lack that I failed to have seen the greatness. I kept doing what everybody said would help me see and walk the greatness...classes...wow...way homes...copres...
I just kept thinking if I did what I was told, someday I would *get it*
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coolchef
me too folks
i didn't think i was worthy enough
i thought all the love etc was phony but i just knew it had to be me not them
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cdonkers
What convinced me that TWI was the real deal was my extended Lapse of Stupidity for about a 1 1/2 years
Still can't explain why I couldn't see it sooner, instead of wasting over an entire year to find out that TWI was a cult
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Nottawayfer
A year? Then I feel REALLY stupid because I was drinking the koolaid for almost 20 years.
Why did I get sucked in to begin with: speaking in tongues. I was captivated by it. Now I could care less.
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Jim
The babes. Yeah, you know who you were...
The babes and Del Duncan.
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doojable
You had a crush on Del Duncan???/ :blink: :huh:
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Jim
You know I didn't mean that....
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doojable
I had to rib you tho...
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