Episode 8 is now up at this link entitled “Overcoming Shame and Grief – 4/7/09 – 10:31″

I watched it early yesterday evening and after watching the episode, the first impression was

He said many things, but said absolutely nothing at all

I ended up getting distorted at the convolution that I heard, called it a night and went to ‘the planet’ for a workout and had a good workout at that.

So I came back tonight and decided to watch the video again to collect my comments and I had an epiphany…

They didn’t say much, but the semantics said many things

The video started off mentioning how that the videos are a ‘little shot’ of the big picture of what was going on in the repentance sessions. After hearing that statement, the first thing I thought about was

This series of videos may be turning into a complete video series with more videos behind the scenes that was going to be sold in the near future with a little more revealed detail in the sold version, but with the core issues and ‘essential’ details never addressed / publicized.

In fact, when I heard Joyner’s statement later on when he discussed ‘formulating a doctrine on marriage and re-marriage’. I felt that my intuitions and ‘hunches’ are probably going to become true one day. I really wonder if this is actually the formation of a book / teaching series on marriage and re-marriage (from the MorningStar perspective) along with an entire new book / teaching series of restoring fallen leaders (from the MorningStar perspective and their flawed interpretation of Galatians 6:1) ?

Look at it, there really is not too many books from a Christian perspective on these two topics and this could be a very intriguing way to enter into the Christian book market with a unique and rarely discussed ‘niche-market’ topic viewed as being ‘groundbreaking’ (or in the prophetic sense ‘revelatory’) in order to ’shape’ the ‘official teachings’ (from MorningStar’s perspective of course) on how ‘real Christians’ are supposed to restore fallen leaders and divorce / re-marriage.

Why does Joyner need to be ‘formulating a doctrine on marriage and re-marriage’? Doesn’t the Bible answer the question already? I think so…

We hear the same thing on this episode as the previous episodes

Lakeland was a genuine move of God

Todd will be restored back to public ministry because Galatians 6:1 means to restore back to the exact same place

Todd discussed the “mammoth size and method and machine of ministry” but it seems that the failure to realize that ministry is never supposed to become “mammoth”, “methodical”, and ‘machinery”. Ministry is supposed to be moving, ministering, medicating, and many days motionless (be still and know I am God). Why do I say this, because Todd talks about being restored back to the “mammoth machine” and his belief that it will happen again. Does he still see ministry as just another ‘machine’ of messianic money-making mass-production?

Then we hear the shocking statement from Todd

I don’t have a doctrine on divorce and remarriage

That’s evident already. That should have been established in Todd years before the first ‘encounter’ ever took place. Because Todd never had a doctrine and it’s apparent he was never taught about what the Bible says about divorce, adultery, and re-marriage; one can easily see why Todd did some of the things he did.

Then it was re-hashed again that there was more beyond the short video sessions that we’ll ever see. And I am beginning to wonder if all we’ll see from this point on in future videos is the constant repetition of the flawed interpretation of Galatians 6:1, the flawed mindset that Lakeland was actually from God, and Todd going back into ‘ministry’ exactly where he left off?

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