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Zachery Tim’s mysterious death last summer still reverberates through ministry. It has led to more intrigue than one can imagine. Before Christmas we heard the strange discussions and placements of his churches new leader Paula White. There is the heated court battle over his autopsystill in New York state court. Now, comes the first hand account from his former wife Riva Tims, who is surely going to blow the top off the secrecy surrounding his demise with her new book.

Zachery and Riva were 22 when they first met at church. With a shared passion to win souls to Jesus they married and shortly thereafter ventured out to start a ministry in Orlando, Florida. “We labeled ourselves an outreach ministry. So our whole goal was to pull people in from the street, not to pull them from other churches, but really to get those that were unsaved. And I think the people felt our love, they felt our sincerity, and we were young. We had a lot of zeal for the Lord, a lot of excitement.”

“If God said, ‘Go on TV.’ we had the faith to do it.  If God said, ‘Go into the community,’ we just had the faith to do it.”

But as church membership grew at an astonishing rate so did their stature in the church world. “It becomes an empire. It becomes your own name that’s highlighted. And it becomes about you when that’s never how it’s supposed to be. Everything ought to point to Jesus! Everything ought to point to the Lord.”

“And if you’re not careful, they’ll begin to worship you more than they worship God.”

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article courtesy of Elev8.com

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