During our years at GGWO we were unfortunately led astray or misled by many false teachings preached at GGWO services and raps. What we thought was true, we found out was false. What we thought was preaching straight from God's Word we found out was twisted false teaching of men. Here's a sample of them.
Delegated Authority:
The GGWO teaching that a pastor especially Carl Stevens or Tom Schaller have been raised up by God as God's special spokesmen with delegated absolute authority over others that was given to them by God Himself. Blind obedience, complete loyalty and total devotion to these pastors is expected of all. The pastors are never to be questioned no matter what they say or do that could and often did violate Scripture in major ways.
Coverings:
This is a twisted teaching mainly designed to protect the leaders from any accountability for their actions. When a leader or other insider commits a sin and claims repentance of it (even if they didn't mean it), the sin is forever covered and can never be mentioned by anyone ever again. That way someone with an ongoing selfish agenda can claim repentance and expect everyone around him that may know anything to stay silent and do nothing as this culprit continues to harm others or lead them astray. Its a method to enforce cover ups for leaders and others in their favor.
One pastor for life:
This hideous teaching turns a person's love for God against them by making them think that to ever leave the church (GGWO) would be leaving God's will for them and would lead to divine retribution against the person. That way GGWO leaders could entrap people within their group and exploit them for the rest of their lives. This teaching is a close cousin of the other false teaching known as geographical will which basically presumes that God's geographical will for a person is for them to be in their GGWO church.
One has to attend three services a week EVERY week:
This legalistic teaching requires people to attend services whenever their GG pastor teacher gets behind the pulpit to preach a message. That would be three services a week in the case of GGWO Baltimore. Point is that the pastors want you to attend every single service they have no matter how often they are scheduled. People are told that God will hold them accountable for everything preached by their pastors and invited speakers so they had better attend every single service or else. This is more bondage that GG puts on people that they use for more indoctrination and reprogramming of their minds with the GG teaching.
No touch love:
This twisted teaching forbids any form of physical contact between a boyfriend and girlfriend prior to officially getting married. That means no hugs, no kisses, no holding hands, no nothing until you walk down the aisle. This is more useless bondage that GGWO puts on people that is not supported by Scripture.
That's only the beginning!!!
Does the GGWO website still have the ad
"Thinking with god, The New Daily Devotional with Carl H. Stevens"? God was in lower case in the ad. When we used to hear about the subject (thinking with god) from the pulpit it was impossible to realize the word god was every time in lower case. Later we learned who that god was. He was named in the ad.
Thinking with god means total dependance upon CHS and his inconsistent, complicated, twisted, perverted interpretation of the Bible. Words do not have definite meanings in his "definitions" and "doctrines", but he changes the meanings as he pleases. Try to find satisfactory explanations or back-up to his definitions from the Bible and you can't. You will have to "think with god", because in the GGWO you are not allowed to think with God by yourself.
You are told that you can't think by yourself, but that is just another lie without any valid reference to the Scriptures. Start to think, start to read the Bible and start to ask questions and soon you will find how thin the "deep teaching" in the GGWO actually is.
Start to ask questions and you will also find that you are not allowed to ask questions. If you keep asking, you will be ridiculed, disparaged, rejected and finally excommunicated. Does God in the Bible allow people to ask honest questions? Did Jesus reject the people that asked him serious questions? Truth is not afraid of an honest question, only little gods are.