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| ...is what Senior Pastor Kekel needs you to believe. |
He has never been challenged in any significant way, because at the end of the day Tanya is still a Davis (and always will be), so could have confidence that any trial was only very temporary, and everything would turn out for her benefit…And if necessary Dad would bail her out. And what was good for Tanya was also a routine and regular stepping stone for Senior Pastor Kekel.
I do not envy them, nor do I pity or hate them. They are merely a harmful force
that must be gainsaid to help those still trapped, and to bring comfort to
those who have escaped.
Senior
Pastor Kekel’s self-promoted trials are like the trial of already having an
inheritance you can’t get until you are 25 (the trail would be the waiting on
the sure thing), or the trial of having a smaller kitchen and walk in closet in
your latest Mansion.
No Ministry success, no long-term Ministry challenges, no long-term financial challenges...no lack, no want where they could not see the light at the end of a very short tunnel.
No Ministry success, no long-term Ministry challenges, no long-term financial challenges...no lack, no want where they could not see the light at the end of a very short tunnel.
No
danger of being held to the same standard/policy as everyone else, some of whom
were around longer that Senior Pastor Kekel; so have a more complete historic
perspective, and know what goes on, and what real (not contrived) trials they
have been through, and what hardships have been thrust upon them.
Senior
Pastor Kekel knows this (that some have been around longer than he has, know
more than he does, and have sacrificed more than he has...but is not self-aware
enough to realize it), yet he is the self-appointed mouth of all things NTCC,
and commenting on many things he has no firsthand knowledge of. Senior Pastor
Kekel has been warehoused in Graham for over 28 years, so has no “been there, done that” perspective about the work of the Lord out in the field.
Senior Pastor Kekel writes about how they sacrificed to get where they are (and to have all they have), citing all the times they went home to eat a sandwich before going out to fellowship at a restaurant (that's a lot of sandwiches). Or, has to reach all the way back to his childhood in the 1960's (the cracked toilet-seat story was a real tear-jerker). Deb and I also had hardships in the 1960's that rival (surpass) anything he has shared to date, but only have to reach back to our last year with NTCC (2008) for more recent anecdotes.
Senior Pastor Kekel writes about how they sacrificed to get where they are (and to have all they have), citing all the times they went home to eat a sandwich before going out to fellowship at a restaurant (that's a lot of sandwiches). Or, has to reach all the way back to his childhood in the 1960's (the cracked toilet-seat story was a real tear-jerker). Deb and I also had hardships in the 1960's that rival (surpass) anything he has shared to date, but only have to reach back to our last year with NTCC (2008) for more recent anecdotes.
Senior Pastor Kekel shares his testimony of hardship, but they were eating their money-saving sandwiches in a custom built house/Mansion they owned, and going out to eat in a late model Mazda/Cadillac/BMW/SUV they owned, and coming home to a fully furnished/decorated house, and to a son who was in private school (or destined for it), was involved in organized sports, et cetera. Plus, there was a good chance someone would pay for food/dessert/coffee for them at the restaurant. Just like we all did for Pastor Davis and company.
Maybe
they should call their estate "Sandwich Mansion."
RUN-ON SENTENCE ALERT: It is a lot different giving a months’ pay when you already have all these things, plus a steady job, plus a stable place to live for decades on end with no chance of moving, plus a bank account that wasn't on "E," than giving money every month for the work of the Lord, and using the rest to go to Conference and Fellowship Meetings, and/or the inevitable move that was always just around the next corner for these same decades of involvement (like Deb and I did), with no light at the end of a very long tunnel.
No comparison, not even close. The Kekel's just can’t relate to all the little people, as is evidenced by their shared online perceptions of what is a struggle, but what others would just consider a hick-up.
Tanya
was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and Senior Pastor Kekel was
born-again with a silver spoon in his mouth. My take? It’s all about the money,
and self-justification.
We
don’t have a Mansion so I guess we really don’t understand. We can’t relate to
the Kekel’s wealth in the same way they can’t relate to being in the work of
the Lord out in the field.
Consider
this, Senior Pastor Kekel has never…Pastored a Church outside of Graham,
pioneered a Church, Pastored a Church that didn’t have sufficient guaranteed
income, Pastored a Church that didn't have nice facilities, not had a dependable late-model car, moved every few years, had to quit
a job, had to pick people up for Church, had to commute to work or Church (or
even had to change for Church, since he worked in Church clothes), had to
wonder how the Church bills were getting paid, had to go door-to-door door
knocking, had junky furniture, et cetera for the past 28 years…So maybe he
really doesn’t understand.
Maybe
we would be different if we had the Kekel's wealth. We would like to try, so we
are. It will just take us longer, since we will have to amass it honestly. So far we are still the same people (minus the stinking Cult thinking). We
are still standing on our own 4 feet (just like we did in the Cult). We were/are not
dependent upon being propped up by the man behind the curtain in Graham, and
were not shielded from the routine dangers of Cult-life by a woman’s tight
skirt, and the founder’s grandson.
I
like the way things have turned out, and who we are now. Things are only
getting progressively better. I also like the fact that the Blogs are still
active and effective (and so effortlessly tweak the leadership), and that
people continue to escape.
Leave your Cult before it is too late...You'll be glad you did.
Gregory
Leave your Cult before it is too late...You'll be glad you did.
Gregory
All that is true Greg and that's why I previously wrote that I may not be any different had I been in Kekel's shoes. It's possible that I'd be much different and it's possible that I'd be no different than Kekel if I would have been Davis' son in law. Having said all that, it still doesn't make it right. Kekel is spoiled and so is Tanya and they act like two spoiled brats.
ReplyDeleteThe NTCC is still a very bad organization to be involved with and Kekel doesn't deserve one dime from anyone. Kekel and Tanya won't ever have a real job because there are still plenty of suckers left who have no problem filling Kekel's pockets. If every sucker left the NTCC tomorrow, Kekel would be indefinitely secure financially. NTCC real estate is worth an awful lot of money. At least 100 million or two if not a lot more.
Yep, Kekel can't truly relate to any other minister in the NTCC except maybe Kinson because at least for the last decade, the Kinson's have been handed a silver spoon as well.
Agreed. Except for one thing, I wouldn't try to justify the unjustifiable, but then I would be out the door, and Tanya would be on husband number 2.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, there is no way I would have become husband number 1. I don't like lascivious women, even when I was a sinner. Some women try too hard for my taste.
Gregory
Fair enough.
ReplyDeletevery good!
ReplyDeleteKekel's sacrifices pale in comparison to what others in the ntcc have gone through. When you become part of the ntcc's "work your way to heaven plan", it is apparent that you must have things to brag about in order to get others to respect you. I remember R-dub sharing that in his early days he used to live out of his car and pray that God would get him through to the next revival, (with holes in his shoes). Other pastors in the ntcc would brag from behind the pulpit how that they sacrificed more than anyone in the church so that we all could have a place to worship. They would preach for money, so they could sink it into the Church Edifice in hope that when RWD came around, they would be praised for being great leaders. More often than not, they would take the brethren's sacrifice for granted to toot their own horns.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with SP Kekel is that he really has very little sacrifice that impresses anyone. What has he sacrificed? He suffered in the 60's with his mom and he gave almost an entire months pay one time to help start a work in Germany. Has he ever prayed until his sweat became drops of blood? He can't relate to most of the people around him because many have gone without for the majority of their lives. When I look at Kekel and Davis, I realize how thankful I am to be free from all their manipulation and control. I would rather work for minimum wage and live in poverty than to work for the ntcc and live in poverty off of an E-6 income.
I look back and think about how stupid I was to have nothing to show for 13 years in the military, while they all got richer and richer. Verna once told me that I should have been a millionaire with all the money I was making in the ntcc. They all got rich from people just like me that were gullible and willing to make stupid sacrifices to support their own lavish lifestyles.
DnA
"not had a dependable late-model car..."
ReplyDeleteWell, not exactly; there was a short interval when he was my roommate in St. Louis that he drove an old beast he got from Mike Marshall. I think he took it on an evangelistic tour. It wasn't late model, but I suppose it was dependable, since we didn't hear any war stories like the rest of us have about breakdowns on the road. But your point is well taken; this aberration didn't last long and pretty soon he was driving the kind of car commensurate with the Great Administrator he was becoming.
Vic,
ReplyDeleteThe stated context of this whole article (and the paragraph you quote from) is the past 28+ years he has been homesteading in Graham.
What he was before marrying Tanya is irrelevant...It's been fat city ever since he became Rev. Tanya Davis (Kekel).
2 years after marrying the founders daughter he was able to move to Graham, build a house, furnish it, drive a brand-new car (Mazda), etc.
Remarkable, considering he has testified he was a broke as the rest of us were when he was in Bible College.
Gregory
Yes, he was broke as everybody in BS, despite having a better job than most. Lack of leadership? I suppose he would spin it as evidence of his penchant for giving his "last dollar" to the "work of God," and point to his current prosperity as the predictable result of that kind of sacrifice. However, your thesis is much more plausible--he hooked up with the boss' daughter (a couple years before marrying her), and the skids have been greased for him ever since. It's obvious to all who haven't been brainwashed.
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