I been to church meetings, used to drive days to go, where some secretive information was to be given out, people are informed at these types of meetings with this type of instructions.
The building will be secured no one leaves no one comes in after we start
There is no recording of any thing period
This is such sensitive material that many do not know about it
After 30 yrs of salvation and being filled with the Holy Ghost for 29 years I became Leary of such meetings. I say if someone has some info that can help us as the body of Christ then why is it shrouded in such secrecy ?
Peter says it is no private interpretation. The Holy Ghost for one is the same Holy Ghost for another if it’s the TRUE Holy Ghost of the Bible, the same Holy Ghost that speaks to one can speak to others. We need to get away from these secret type things.
It has nothing to do with private interpretation. It has to do with who will make a profit off the “information”. The business world has a strategy called “first to market”. If a product becomes popular, everyone starts jumping on the bandwagon to get a slice of the pie, but the first to market people have a competitive edge and initially make a significant profit while everyone else is getting up to speed.
Meetings like you are describing are “first to market” meetings of supposed new revelation and spiritual truth. If you keep things secretive and you are the only source from the beginning, it is easier to claim rights of ownership over the material and fight contested copyright ca$e$.
You right Randy H Johnson
The mighty dollar rules even in the church, sad to say
Open book!
Donald S Aultman would hold secret strategy meeting to turn the world upside down in his personal General Assembly Suite – it was an AmWay presentation!
Yeah, those people used to think they had found a way to serve God and money.
the hierarchy made plenty of money and made Lee, AmWay University
I never heard of such a thing except perhaps for a possible dealing with a minister.
R u speaking of the business world or church. I’ve been in semiconductor meetings that r for our ears only & some church meetings that were personal. Don’t really know what u mean!
Church meetings
It depends on what it is. If you are talking about a church in a part of the world where there is a lot of persecution and they are deciding what to do about it and where to meet, it makes sense. The Bible never says a church meeting has to be open to unbelievers. I Corinthians 14 lets us know that one might wonder into a meeting in Corinth back then, but no unbelievers dared join the Jerusalem church on Solomon’s porch during a certain period of time.
I could see a need for privacy if a district or state was thinking about buying property or if there was a morality issue with a pastor or official.
Perry Stone does this to a certain degree… he has prophecy summits or something like that, that no recordings are allowed to be made, and people have to pay to get in.
There’s just something about that approach that doesn’t sit right with me.
Everyone has a right for privacy. Why would it worry u?
I think people need to read my comments and the reasons I state. I personally am not into it, I was just wanting input not comments to try and straighten this 55 year out.
Amen.