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Cooper Stuff Podcast

Cooper Stuff Ep. 229 - Bethel's (Unsatisfying) Apology

Cooper Stuff Podcast

Jennifer Fleming

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

5.03.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Bethel's apology; my thoughts; lots of receipts.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Please forgive me for anything and everything I have said or done that would put less value on attending to the hurt and broken people. It's just wrong. It's just wrong. My delay has caused so much frustration, family, and staff.

0:22.6

And please forgive me.

0:23.6

I promise to try to learn this one better.

0:26.4

I just don't do that well.

0:29.1

But I'm praying with your forgiveness and grace to be able to attend these things in a much wiser way.

0:35.5

That was a very good statement by Bill Johnson. I'm going to play a few good statements by Bill Johnson and Chris Valleton at Bethel during their repentance thing. Now, do I think that this is good enough? Do I think is overall a good thing? No, I really don't. I'm struggling very hard. And I know that some of you are struggling very hard too

0:55.0

and I'm going to explain why on this episode. We're going to go into a little bit of a depth,

1:00.2

a deep dive into the repentance thing. I'm going to show some other receipts so that you know

1:06.1

where I'm coming from on this episode of Cooper Stuff.

1:09.8

Music coming from on this episode of Cooper Stuff.

1:44.5

Hey everybody, welcome to Cooper Stuff. I hope you are doing well. So this week I covered the whole Bethel thing to kind of fill you with what was going on. I didn't say much about the actual repentance service, not knowing if I was going to or not. I asked you guys, hey, is this the kind of thing that you guys want to know about or whatever? But we got this comment on YouTube. I'm just going to read it. It says, thank you for this. Great conversation. Charismatic churches hurt people when they

1:49.4

lean more on the Holy Spirit than the Bible, teachings that maybe you don't know how to hear the

1:54.3

Holy Spirit when it doesn't match what they think. I am recovering and hoping God can heal my heart

1:59.8

from staying at a hurtful church too long.

2:02.5

I wanted to read that because that kind of told me everything I needed to know.

2:06.3

I'm not sure how many people this will help.

2:08.7

I don't know if, you know, there might be a lot of my, the Coopers of audience that is not really interested in this.

2:15.5

Absolutely fine.

2:17.3

I resonate with that comment that I just read to you

2:19.7

because I've been through my own situation

2:22.2

over the last couple of years

2:23.5

with a lot of similar things

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