Reply #19: Yeah, Rhema is wacky

[TlalocW]

I think the reason we have so many churches in Tulsa is because of Oral Roberts and Rhema, and while that sounds obvious, my reasoning takes a different tact in that Oral Roberts and Rhema charge so much (at Rhema you have to buy these 30 page books that cost $65 each that were written by the founder of course) that the people doing ministerial studies can't afford to move elsewhere, and at Rhema, they're encouraged to start building their flock so that they'll stay in the area and donate generously to the university.

Rhema stories:
I had a friend who grew up in this area (I'm originally from Kansas), and when she was in high school, her bus driver was a Rhema student. Well, one day, my friend looked out at some guy driving a convertible, and she mockingly said, "Oooh, look at that guy... He's such a god!" Well, the Rhema bus driver wanted to discuss this with her, and my friend basically told her to get bent. She was later called into the principal's office where the bus driver was waiting for her having made up some story about her doing something really wrong on the bus.

A lot of the Rhema people also have no problem bouncing checks or not paying their debts, thinking that God will provide. A computer programmer I know did $8000.00 worth of work for some Rhema guy, who then didn't pay him because he didn't have the "right spirit." This computer programmer is a former minister.

TlalocW