Possible WOFF Defenses- Part 2 – Jane Whaley Thinks She is Right!

      Recently, I heard someone commenting on the delusion of a famous person. He said that this person did not live in or see the reality of their actions. This famous person thought that they were actually helping folks! When in reality, the long term effects if not changed, will affect millions of folks negatively, for years to come.

    Then it suddenly dawned on me…. Jane Whaley thinks she is helping folks! She must believe she is fulfilling God’s work regardless evidence of the destroyed lives. She must think she is helping improve the lives of members by controlling them and not allowing them to experience freedoms that she and her leadership enjoy every day!

     Jane Whaley thinks she is right!  She believes she does no wrong. Jane must feel TOTALLY justified in living her life, as she does. She must have no qualms about keeping ministry spending secretive. She must have no objections to publically berating members and embarrassing by telling them they will not make it with God and will go to hell. From my perspective, she had no conviction about telling a class of high school girls that they were “homely” looking. (see post here http://religiouscultsinfo.com/?p=918 ..) She expressed some surface concern about having “enough clothes to cover two city blocks”. (I am not sure if that included her shoes…) This confession did not seem to change her shopping habits. She felt completely justified in acting as a third party medical debt collector. There were no regrets expressed in the meeting described here.. http://religiouscultsinfo.com/?p=235

     Jane Whaley does not see her ministry as destroying individuals or families. How would I know? How likely is it that Jane could continue with the charade knowing her whims, edicts, antics and “words from God” were responsible for tearing families apart? Would it not follow that Jane believes she is helping people? She believes she is helping others to hear Jesus and fulfill the call of God. For the spouse, family or individual that leaves Word of Faith Fellowship (WOFF)- they “just did not want to give up their sin”… After all, what good reason would there be to leave the safest, most holy place on earth? There was/is some strong rationalization going on to cover up or spin the reasons that people have left or will leave WOFF.

    These thoughts shocked me in a BIG way! On July 10, 2010, I will have been out – two years.  I had not stopped to consider that Jane Whaley rationalizes in her mind that she was helping folks. But, the scripture does say that “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries the hearts.(Amp.)    It follows that members of WOFF would reflect this sense of “being in the right” that Jane lives under. Why else would the members continue to gather, listen and submit to the preaching/teaching and the many rules – day after day after day? There would be no reason to gather as a group of believers unless there was a sense that people were being helped and lives were changing. Yes, many members must be in denial, as I was for years.

     For those readers that may not know, it is possible for some members of WOFF to attend a church function six days a week. Special meetings on Saturdays would give a member the opportunity to be at church seven days or more in a row. This does not consider those in a WOFF household. Those members could be in the “sub-cult-ture” for days, weeks or months with no real contact with a non-WOFF person. This emersion into the WOFF culture serves several purposes, one being to solidify the feeling and thoughts of being in the “right group” headed in the right direction- no room for doubts or “free thinking”. There is a drive from Jane Whaley on down through leadership to take care of regular members and make it unnecessary for them to go “to the world” (or Egypt) for help.  

    In order to stay in WOFF for years, I thought that I was in the right group, doing the right thing. That is until the behavior modification- CONTROL began to exert its pressures on me! For years, I was ignoring the doubts and questions in my head and heart. It was just too hard to listen to the doubts for any length of time, since you would have to act on them as they grew. Are there other WOFF members who have the similar doubts and questions?

   In my opinion, this would be one of the most obvious defenses for Jane Whaley and WOFF: We are “right”. We need not answer or explain what goes on here. (Ignore the questions; ignore the results of our practices.)  “We are a Protestant, Non-denominational church with traditional, evangelical beliefs as defined by classical Christianity.” Enough said. The perfect defense- we are above the questions and ignore facts. Using this defense tells us a lot about Jane Whaley and WOFF.

   In the next post, we will discuss other possible WOFF defenses for answering questions in these blog posts and other accounts of former members.  

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