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I'm not sure who took this video, it looks like it was taken from the audience with perhaps a cell phone. I've not seen (or been able to find online) the entire NCCOG memorial service, but, If I'm not mistaken this is the memorial service for Rev. T. L. Lowery at the North Cleveland COG. Kenneth Copeland and Perry Stone are on the platform at the mike, Copeland is speaking to Rev. Stephen Lowery, and tells Stephen several things:1. When I lay my hands on you, I am going to impart to you the mantle of ministry that was on your father.2. You will experience almost immediately a 10-fold increase in ministry results.3. Later on, you will experience another 10-fold increase.www.facebook.com/ginger.smith.507/posts/10208597160425826

Praise the Lord! Dr. T.L. Lowery had friends in the faith world.Maybe some of you need to go a little lighter on Dr TL's friends.

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Note: I ain't from Tennessee, and being born and raised in North Carolina, I thunk NCCOG was North Carolina Church of God, and I'm wondering ? ? ? but I finally figured it out! At times I am slow on the uptake... Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

Out of respect...

Re: Out of respect...

I was wondering when someone would bring this up More of Him...less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name

First, TL Lowery was a servant of the Lord. Few COG ministers have had such a well-known and highly visible ministry. From tent crusades, to pastoral work at North Cleveland, to administrative work, then back to pastoral work and building a small church just out from DC into mega-church, the Lord used Rev. Lowery in so many ways. He certainly has my respect for his many accomplishments in Christian ministry.Second, I also respect Stephen Lowery. To assume the leadership of the church his father built, and for that ministry to continue to flourish, required more than a simple father/son transition. Stephen Lowery is called/gifted in his own right, and he too has my respect.Third, because of that respect, posting the link in the OP was/is in no way an attempt to be less than positive or to be negative about the passing or funeral or TL Lowery. I had the link 2 days before posting it on Acts, and weighed the pros/cons of posting it, knowing that some would cry foul or the timing isn't right, etc. The longer I mused over the issue, the more I realized that regardless of the length of time allowed to elapse before posting (whether 2 days of 20 years), because of who it is (Rev TL Lowery) there would always be some who would say it shouldn't have been posted. Fourth, based on items in 1-3, I decided to post the video. I would have done the same thing if the video had depicted Ray Hughes and his son Ray Hughes Jr, Charles Conn and his son Paul, Frank Culpepper and his son Raymond, et al. Why? Because the contextual focus of the video is not so much about Rev Lowery and his son Stephen as it is about the assertions/actions of Kenneth Copeland. This and this alone is why the video was posted.www.charismanews.com/us/55612-kenneth-copeland-prophesies-t-l-lowery-s-mantle-on-another-man

Posting a video of a man praying for another at a high-profile, public funeral is rarely inappropriate. Given your penchant for stone-throwing at WOF ministers, however, some would find your claims of pure motives in using this video amusing.To me, the mention of double, triple or 10-times anointings is an old covenant paradigm. The Spirit of God is inside of us and with Christ, God has freely given us all things (Rom. 8:32). We receive His Spirit by hearing with faith (Gal. 3:2). While we are filled, refilled and refilled and God certainly imparts gifts by the laying on of hands, there simply is no new covenant basis for imparting someone else's mantle. Despite that, and assuming KC simply loves and was expressing his love for SL and the hopes that SL would carry on building on his father's foundation of ministry using the language of prayer that he understands, I ask...

So, Kenneth Copeland had good motives, but Ole Timer had bad ones.