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ZNPaaneah · 11-03-2010, 04:05 PM

I received two questions via PM I guess to avoid any possible embarrassment.

1. The paper bag had a gift. Prior to coming into the church I had hitchhiked across the country several times. That gift was the only thing that kept me from walking out of that hospitality situation and hitchhiking back to Texas. To me it was the Lord speaking to hang in there.

2. No, there was no gag order on me. I spoke in most meetings. I did not say or do anything worthy of being "gagged". There would have been a backlash had I been gagged because by this time there were two camps when it came to the testimonies. One, led by Ed Marks and Kerry R specialized in quoting WL. I never quoted WL, to me a testimony was a personal experience, a revelation, an answered prayer, etc.

But by 1981 I wanted to leave the LC in a very strong way (primarily because of the things done in secret like this), during a conference I gave a testimony of how the Lord told me "He wouldn't let me go until He had destroyed not only Pharoah but all of Egypt".

11-03-2010, 04:05 PM	#37
ZNPaaneah Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 7,105	Re: Answered Prayer I received two questions via PM I guess to avoid any possible embarrassment. 1. The paper bag had a gift. Prior to coming into the church I had hitchhiked across the country several times. That gift was the only thing that kept me from walking out of that hospitality situation and hitchhiking back to Texas. To me it was the Lord speaking to hang in there. 2. No, there was no gag order on me. I spoke in most meetings. I did not say or do anything worthy of being "gagged". There would have been a backlash had I been gagged because by this time there were two camps when it came to the testimonies. One, led by Ed Marks and Kerry R specialized in quoting WL. I never quoted WL, to me a testimony was a personal experience, a revelation, an answered prayer, etc. But by 1981 I wanted to leave the LC in a very strong way (primarily because of the things done in secret like this), during a conference I gave a testimony of how the Lord told me "He wouldn't let me go until He had destroyed not only Pharoah but all of Egypt".