During their time at Daystar, former Vice President Jonathan Lamb and his wife, Suzy Lamb, say they were repeatedly spiritually abused and bullied by Jonathan’s mother, Daystar President Joni Lamb, and her allies.
Most blatantly, they say, Joni “ambushed” the couple by bringing in Christian heavy-hitter Jimmy Evans, founder of XO Marriage, for a meeting on July 11, 2023. Not only did Joni shame her son by telling him his wife had him “by the balls,” but Evans pressured Jonathan to submit to his mother, claiming she had godlike authority.
“Submission means she is the voice of God to you . . .” Evans told Jonathan and Suzy on a recording the couple gave to The Roys Report (TRR).
“I’m sorry. Can you clarify?” Jonathan asked. “She’s the voice of God to me?”
“She’s the voice of God to you,” Evans said.
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“So, I can’t hear from God? I have to hear from her?” Jonathan asked.
“Outside of Daystar,” Evans replied. “What she says is God in Daystar. This is the voice of God in Daystar.”
The contentious meeting came about two years after Jonathan caught a family member in a compromising situation with his daughter and accused him of molesting the girl. As reported previously by TRR, Jonathan and Suzy claimed that Joni and her late husband, Daystar Co-Founder Marcus Lamb, immediately defended the family member and declared him innocent.
This caused a major rift in the family. But a few weeks later, in late August 2021, Marcus told Jonathan and his brother-in-law, Jonathan “JW” Weiss, that an internal investigation had cleared the family member. (The couple found out much later about critical deficiencies in that investigation.) Then, in November 2021, Marcus died unexpectedly from complications related to COVID.
On June 10, 2023, Joni married Doug Weiss, a sex therapist and repeat guest on Daystar TV who’s no relation to JW Weiss. Doug Weiss had filed for divorce from his wife of 30 years on January 27, 2022, just two months after Marcus died.
And according to Jonathan and Suzy, the meeting with Evans in July 2023 was an attempt to bully the couple into publicly supporting Joni’s second marriage.
A family divided
According to Jonathan and Suzy, none of Joni’s kids or their spouses agreed with Joni’s marriage to Weiss. They all believed Weiss lacked biblical grounds for divorcing his wife, and that by marrying him, Joni was committing adultery.
Just two months before the wedding, a longtime friend of Daystar, Denise Boggs of Living Waters Ministry, wrote an impassioned letter to Joni’s family, urging them to intervene. Boggs not only knew Joni well but had also counseled Doug Weiss and Lisa Weiss just prior to their divorce.
Boggs wrote that she had voiced concerns about Weiss to Joni “but she refused to hear me.” Now, Boggs said Joni was “under a spirit of deception” due to Weiss’ influence.
“He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Boggs wrote. “(H)e is of no caliber for such a high platform.”
She added, “Joni didn’t endorse divorce until she came under his deception. Using the Daystar platform, the enemy has successfully mocked the marriage covenant using one of the strongest Christian TV (n)etwork’s (sic) in the nation.”
Jonathan told TRR that he gathered his family to confront Joni two days after receiving the letter. But Joni allowed “each person no more than 60 seconds to share their heart . . . says all she sees from us is fear and rushes out the door to go fly off to New York with Doug,” Jonathan said.
After Joni and Doug Weiss were married, Jonathan and Suzy remained uneasy about the marriage. But on July 5, 2023, they were asked to read a viewer comment on air, praising Joni’s recent marriage to Weiss. The couple refused to do so because they felt it would give tacit approval to the marriage. Their refusal apparently deeply offended Joni.
This prompted the meeting with Evans—in which Evans and Joni equated Joni’s wishes with God’s, and Jonathan and Suzy’s opposition with Satan.
In his 2017 book Broken Trust, consultant and pastoral coach F. Remy Diederich writes, “Spiritual abuse happens when people use God, or their supposed relationship with God, to control behavior for their benefit.”
Jonathan and Suzy said this is precisely what Evans and Joni were doing.
‘We’re God’s representatives’
On the recording of the meeting, Evans asks Jonathan, “If God came to you right now—and He is—saying you made a mistake, would you correct it? And that’s exactly what’s happening.”
“Of course, without question,” Jonathan replies.
“But you’re not!” Evans says.
“No, but God didn’t appear. He didn’t speak (inaudible),” Jonathan says.
“God has spoken to you,” Joni interrupts. “He spoke to you through me. He spoke to you through Jimmy.”
“You’re not God,” Jonathan says.
“But we’re God’s representatives,” Evans says.
“We’re God’s representatives,” Joni repeats.
Joni and Evans also appeal to their ministry experience as a basis of their authority over Jonathan and Suzy.
“You’ve got 80 years of experience sitting right here talking to you,” Evans says. “It’s a spirit, Jonathan. It’s a spirit that you won’t listen—not just to authority, but to experience.”
“Did you pastor for 41 years and work with marriages?” Joni adds. “I don’t think so. You have about a thumbnail of experience compared to us.”
Elsewhere in the meeting, Jonathan inquires who has authority over Joni.
“What accountability does she have if she’s off?” he asks.
“Well, she has a husband. She has a board,” Evans says.
“I’m on the board,” Jonathan replies.
At the time, the only people on Daystar’s board were Jonathan, Joni, and Tom Calender, a lawyer and Joni’s longtime friend, Jonathan told TRR.
“Yeah, but individually, you’re not her accountability. Individually, you’re her employee,” Evans insists. “. . . She’s the voice of God in Daystar.”
“There’s no other accountability at Daystar,” Jonathan complains.
Then, Evans appeals to Scripture, saying, “Romans 13 tells us to submit to authority, all authority, because it’s established by God . . .”
Jonathan again objects, “No, but I’m saying, who . . . is her accountability at Daystar?”
“But that’s not your concern,” Evans asserts. “Your concern is to do what she says. And if you can’t, you can’t be here.”
Then, Joni interjects: “Tell him what the Lord told you about stubbornness, what it leads to.”
“What the Bible says, this was related to Saul, . . . that rebellion is the sin of witchcraft,” Evans says. “And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. And so, it equates stubbornness with being an idol worshiper. And the reason it does is because stubbornness is the worship of your own opinion. And that’s what y’all are doing. You’re being stubborn. You’re, you’re making an idol out of your own opinion, related to Doug (Weiss).”
Elsewhere in the meeting, Joni similarly accuses Jonathan of making his opinion “an idol” and warns him of the consequences.
“God wouldn’t be pleased with this,” Joni says. “. . . And you’ve opened up yourself, both of you, to demonic activity in your family and with your kids by your rebellion against me.”
Jonathan and Suzy object, saying it’s not rebellion.
“It is rebellion,” Joni asserts. “You’ll bring a curse upon you and your kids.”
At one point in the meeting, Joni accuses Suzy of being led by her feelings and points to the sex abuse allegations from 2021 as an example of how unreliable Suzy’s feelings are.
“There was an issue with (family member), and I’m not going to tell you that, because I know they wouldn’t want me to share it,” Joni tells Evans. “But Susie was completely convinced, and Jonathan was completely convinced that (family member) was doing something that he absolutely was innocent of. And it was a terrible thing to happen in our family. But she drove that thing for a lot. It’s the same thing. It’s exactly the same.”
The conflict reaches a crescendo 15 minutes later with Joni and Suzy going head-to-head about Suzy refusing to read the viewer comment.
“If I’m not comfortable, then I have to stick with my convictions,” Suzy tells Joni.
“. . . It’s not your right to agree or disagree with it,” Joni tells Suzy. “If a viewer has a comment about me or you or anybody else, it’s a nice comment. That’s a good thing to read it. . . . It doesn’t have anything to do with you. You’re reading a viewer comment.”
“I’m representing it. It’s a lie,” Suzy says.
“You’re not representing anything!” Joni replies.
“I’m reading it!” Suzy says.
“It’s not a lie! It’s not a lie!” Joni objects.
“It’s a lie if I say something I don’t believe,” Suzy replies.
“. . . It has nothing to do with you. It is a viewer comment. It’s not a Suzy comment. It’s a viewer comment,” Joni says.
“I can’t go against my convictions in that. . .” Suzy says.
“Don’t come back then,” Joni replies. “You’re gone. You’re fired. If you can’t read a nice comment about Doug, I don’t want you here. You won’t do ‘The Green Room’ (Jonathan and Suzy’s show on Daystar). You won’t do anything.”
After Suzy is fired, Jimmy and Joni turn their attention to Jonathan, asking if he’d read the comment, if asked to do so again.
Repeatedly, Jonathan asks Joni to respect his wishes.
“All I want to hear is that you’ll submit to my authority,” Joni says. “That’s all. I don’t want to hear anything else. I don’t want to hear about your personal convictions.”
Jonathan says he will submit to Joni. But when Evans asks if that means Jonathan would read the comment if asked to read it today, there’s a long pause. Then Evans says, “See, now you’re in trouble with her.”
Suzy objects to being made “some bad guy.”
Then Joni says, “You are bad, Suzy. You’ve got him by the balls and you know it.”
“Babe, they’re really scary,” Suzy says to Jonathan. “They think horrible things. I’ve got you ‘by the balls’? Who talks like this?”
“. . . You gave him a look,” Joni says.
“I gave him a look of pity, like . . . you’re cornering him. This is so evil, what is happening,” Suzy replies.
“No, what is evil is you,” Joni says. “What’s evil is you and the spirit that’s driving you . . .”
At the end of the meeting, Suzy appears to leave the room, leaving Jonathan alone with his mom and Evans.
Joni encourages Jonathan to “draw the line in the sand” with Suzy. “You’re going to pay hell for it but stand your ground.”
Jonathan tells his mother that he and Suzy are “on the same page,” but she appears to not hear what he said.
“. . . You are about to catch hell, so you handle her,” Joni says. “You’re her covering. Handle her.”
Then, speaking to Evans, Joni says, “This is going to be his Alamo, so he’s going to handle it and handle her—or not. But I can tell him, this will probably decide your leadership role here at Daystar, how you handle that.”
Jonathan fired from Daystar
After the meeting, Jonathan wrote in an email to Joni that he felt “trapped in an impossible position. . . . Things are completely out of hand. I never thought in my life I would be put in this position. We urgently need to meet about this matter.”
Joni replied that “for now, payroll isn’t being affected” and said she would let Jonathan know when she’s “ready to meet on this issue.”
Over the next 18 months, Jonathan and Suzy say the intimidation and threats from Daystar intensified, culminating in Jonathan’s termination from Daystar on Nov. 16, 2024.
We will cover the details of what happened during those 18 months in our next story.
TRR reached out to Daystar with specific questions regarding this story. Daystar replied that Joni would be releasing an official statement.
In the statement released this afternoon, Joni accuses Jonathan of “fabricating a smear campaign” because he “was not named future President of Daystar following the death of his father.”
Joni also accuses Jonathan of attempting “to blackmail his way into becoming the future President of Daystar” and released a portion of an email from Jonathan.
We remain willing to put this episode behind us, however, we also require security, transparency, and certainty about our futures at Daystar. To achieve this goal, we would suggest that Joni, Daystar, and ourselves enter into a new contract that clearly spells out my future role as President of Daystar, restricts the ability of Joni (or any other officer or director) from taking actions adverse to our employment without good cause (to be clearly defined), and without prior approval of a majority of the board of directors. In exchange for the agreement contemplated above, we will agree not to use, disseminate or otherwise publish any and all audio recordings that could be harmful or embarrassing to Daystar, Joni or our family.
According to Jonathan and Suzy, the commitment not to publish audio recordings was not blackmail, but a response to 13 stipulations Daystar gave the couple if they wanted to be reinstated to their previous positions at Daystar.
One of the stipulations asked for the couple to “agree to destroy all recordings of meetings with Jimmy Evans and Joni, and any recording of Joni talking privately with Joni and Suzy over refusal to read on-air.”
Jonathan added that his reference to his “future role as President of Daystar” was not an attempt to usurp his mother’s position. Instead, he was referring to the succession plan his father had outlined that “if Joni passes, or retires,” then Jonathan would become President.
However, both Jonathan and Suzy noted that these negotiations happened before Nov. 18, 2023, when Denise Boggs revealed to them that the internal investigation had not cleared their family member of molesting their daughter. At that point, the couple say they no longer cared about their jobs but wanted justice.
Complete audio of meeting between Evans, Joni, Jonathan and Suzy:
Full email excerpted in Joni’s official statement:
Jonathan email Joni Calender Lynch_Oct 3 2023pdf
Julie Roys is a veteran investigative reporter and founder of The Roys Report. She also previously hosted a national talk show on the Moody Radio Network, called Up for Debate, and has worked as a TV reporter for a CBS affiliate. Her articles have appeared in numerous periodicals.
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If anyone had Jonathan by the balls, it was Joni.
Joni married a man who divorced his wife to marry her and refused to help her granddaughter and step daughter .bye Daystar. 😡
That is absolutely true in this case!
So sad…if Joni had just responded not in defending herself or slamming her own children..but in humility asking others to pray for them as they seek truth, and healing it would have been much better..always let God defend you….Sad very sad.
Seems odd that Joni didn’t notice if Jonathan and Suzy had ceased walking in the Spirit (Galatians 5) and were now aligned with the “spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places” (Ephesians 6) until she married Doug Weiss.
Beware when someone claims, “I am the voice of God!” Scripture tells us that ultimately there is only one infallible voice of God, and that is Jesus Christ! Daystar is an organization drunk on money, sex, and power. It is a large demonstration of the disease that now permeates evangelical Christianity.
I think the major influencer in all this is Jimmy Evans. If he had the Godly wisdom to say NO to Joni this unholy mess never would have happened. But as elder of Gateway church you only have to observe what has happened there – another ungodly mess!
However, at the end of the day Joni Lamb is wholly responsible for her actions and for being seduced by Doug Weiss, the person at the centre of all this.
I am sad that her other children and their spouses did not stand up to her in all this self-adulating worship. Instead, they and all the Daystar singers and team (who receive their Daystar paycheck) are facing her empire crumble and bringing the Lord’s Name into disrepute.
I pray for Jonathan and Suzy to continue to have the courage to see this through and for something good to come out of it at the end – which only God can do.
And I pray for healing for them and their kids in the midst of all the abuse.
May Joni, Doug & Jimmy Evans have the humility to repent of all they have done to implode what was a good christian ministry and may all the Joni worshippers especially Josh Brown and her inner circle of lady friends have the decency to stand down from what has been a man-made altar to Joni worship. I watched the pride creep in and take over which God hates and is bringing to an end…….
It appears that she has been deceived by both Doug Weiss and Jimmy Evans and must have them be her spokespersons. Many will be deceived in the last days……………….. It also appears that many in this web of lies and deceit stand to lose a lot of wealth, power, position and prestige; hence the spiritual bullying, need for reprimanding and threats. No one has the right to be someone else’s “voice of GOD” if it is not directly from GOD and that person knows for themself it is GOD’s own voice. Why wouldn’t GOD just tell them himself?????
When you work for someone, you have to respect their authority EVEN IF THEY ARE WRONG. Your option is submit or leave. Pray if God wants you to expose or turn them over to God. It’s never right to stay and fight authority EVEN IF THEY ARE WRONG or you don’t agree.
We don’t have to pray whether to expose deeds done in darkness. It’s an explicit command to do so. There is no question for those who follow Jesus and adhere to the word—even at the risk of our life, safety, or livelihood ( we do so because we do not love our lives-even unto death) To fail to do so is a failure to obey God and is outright sin—though praying for wisdom and the right spirit is definitely recommended!
And there is a big difference between obedience and submission. We obey God alone. He has sole authority and authorship to define right and wrong. That’s not shared with any man but Christ. Absolutely we are to be in submission to earthly authority but we must stand for what God says steadfastly and submission is the willingness to accept punishment for standing with the truth (even unjustly) from those we are in submission to. S
So it’s always right to expose sin and call to repentance (especially after personal confrontation and a second in the presence of other witnesses)
But it’s also right to submit to the unjust dismissal too!😅
Jimmy Evans should be ashamed of himself for attacking Jonathan.
100% wrong. While Joni is clearly claiming to be the voice of God, she is also in a marriage to a man who got a divorce without proper biblical grounds. In that case, every single person on staff, and every single viewer of Daystar should be pointing out Joni’s unbiblical behavior. Once a person is in clear defiant behavior against God, they need to be called out for it, publically. Every single one of us is supposed to be a Watchman. That responsibility, as a Christian, is not optional. Jothanan was on the board. It was his responsibility to call out his mother on her behavior. You are saying just walk away and let them continue to operate in error and multiply their sins. Big Wrong Answer.
Amen and very well said David Cremer!
Go back and read the Roys Report, where all her children confronted her not to marry Doug Weiss and Joni wouldn’t listen
this is very true there is n othing about the bible in thier reportore its okay to committ divorce it is okay t o get rich en enjoy life now and miss out on eternity
I read this entire story and the video response from the network. I went through a similar event 30 years ago when I approached a ministry leader who was sexually harassing women in the office and misappropriating donor money. I was fired, three of the women left, and board members reprimanded me by saying, “Touch not the Lord’s anointed.” Clearly out of context. One of these board members was a prominent member of Promise Keepers. As Os Guinness writes, “The truth always outs,” and it eventually did. Sadly, the board covered up clear wrong-doing, tried to make me the problem, and failed to hold this leader accountable.
Reading this report and also reading the comments makes me realize I need to publish the book I have been contemplating on spiritual abuse. It is unfortunately a sad and frequent issue in ministry. When will it end?
It’s a shame that all of this is happening. I use to watch DayStar faithfully, until Joni announced that she was marrying. It kind of got weird and Doug Weiss just gave me the creeps. Far too many cover ups in Christianity businesses. Are you really doing the work of the Lord or are you doing this for financial gain and status? There should never be a coverup when someone is sexually abused, especially a child. Joni shame on you, Doug Weiss, Jimmy Evan’s and all others who are trying to destroy a family who does want to honor the Lord in bringing these horrendous allegations to the light. If If understand correctly Jonathan tried to take care of this in house and when there was no repentance from anyone involved he felt he had no choice and he handed it over. I pray for the truth to come out and that all party’s involved will come to repentance and attend to God’s business.
It’s the old Narcissistic games of blame-shifting and gaslighting. Stand strong Jonathan and Suzy! Truth will win.
Nothing stands in Joni’s way if she wants it she gets it. Even the Word of God. Doug Weiss saw a chance for a great business deal with a little fun along the way. And of course he wants’ Jonathan out of the way, he is the heir apparent. He can easily take control of it from Joni. It is very confusing to children that have been taught Biblical principles to have their parents change their mind in certain situations. I wonder what was Jimmy Evans price for his part in all of this? (“Every man has his price. For some it’s money, for some it’s women, for others glory. But the honest man you don’t have to buy – he winds up costing you nothing.”― Harold Robbins, ) Rom 1:22 -23 Professing to be wise, they became foolish and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness of an image of corruptible man,
Save your speculations. Jimmy Evans has always taught submission to authority as a high priority ….even if they are wrong, you don’t buck your employer and bad mouth everyone ( even if you’re right). You Submit and pray or you can leave your employer, it’s kind of like the order of operations in math.. first you submit….then pray and make your decisions based on what God tells you, but when you work for someone, you can’t resist them and try to make them do what YOU WANT ( even if they are wrong)! Clearly Jimmy Evans knew Joni well, or thought he did, he is a man of high integrity. Dont judge his motives when you don’t have his understanding of the situation. Clearly Weis and Joni have led him to believe that Weis’s wife had abandoned or was abusing her husband ( whether it was true or not) who really knows that?
Except that at the time – Jonathan was 1) a board member 2) vis president
So yes he was employed by the company but also had the right as all do to question. If u can’t submit – it goes so against your convictions then yep you have to leave.
Jonathan though was fired after he refused to sign an NDA
I think it is disturbing, the way Joni and Marcus bullied their son, when he approached them with, what happened to their daughter!
I know Marcus has passed, but he was more worried about the Daystar ministry being smeared, then his little granddaughter that had been molested!
I use to watch Daystar a few years back, I always thought something wasn’t right with Marcus, I thought he was fake, always crying, it wasn’t normal!
Then Marcus dies, and Joni marries a man she had known as a Christian counselor then leaves his wife of 30 years! That was not right! Jonathan advised Joni she should not marry him!
I use to watch Jimmy Evan’s, too! What kind of garbage is he telling them to listen to his mother because she is the voice of God! What?
It looks like the whole ministry has gone off the deep end! It has been prophesied about ministries in Texas, would fall! I pray for Jonathan and Suzie!
God help them heal along with their little girl!
And a bunch in the DFW area have fallen: Daystar, Gateway, Tony Evans, Steven Lawson, and others not as well-known.
This is what I wrote to Joni on her Instagram message “This is not a smear campaign. The problem is, when you are in deception, you do not know it. Have you made a ‘god’ in your own image? You all need to fast and pray and read the Bible and get out of your tunnel vision and seek the Lord. I agree with your kids about your 2nd marriage because it aligns with the Bible. You all are turning into TBN 2.0 with the lies and deception.”
Do you all remember when Jack VanImpe left TBN? They were telling him what he could or could not preach…..
It’s the same old story. Money, power, and false authority dominating the smaller people. I watched an unrepentant pastor removed from his church, license cancelled, family lost because he would not heed the warnings from God. It may happen here.
There is so much wrong with Jimmy Evan’s comment, “she’s the voice of God”! The whole teaching of unquestioningly submitting to “spiritual authority” has caused so much harm and abuse within the Christian/church world for decades and it needs to stop! These so-called “anointed spiritual leaders” are still human and do not have a 100% infallible connection and hearing from God and certainly not in regards to other humans lives! It is arrogant for her and Jimmy to question what Jonathan may be hearing or sensing from God, even if it pertains to Daystar. A person should still be able to hold to their personal convictions, in their place of employment, and not be forced to say, do or read something that is against their principles or personal views, without threat of termination. So much wrong with this ongoing situation. But as the Word explains, those things that are done in secret will be shouted from the rooftops! Time will tell how this all unfolds!
You left off the rest…she’s the voice of God to YOU at Daystar. Jonathan is an employee. He’s not in charge, Jonathan is required to submit or leave, EVEN IF THEY ARE WRONG! That’s how God operates . You can quietly disagree and stay, or you can leave , I don’t blame them for being distressed about their daughter!! What did Joni say to her that she refuses to talk even to a counsellor any more? They are free to walk away, but you may not try to make others do your will ( control and manipulation is the sin of witchcraft). Dont misrepresent what others are actually saying. That too is bearing false witness.
See my comment to Faye above, you’re not speaking the whole truth of what he said, when you work for someone you submit or you leave, even if THEY ARE WRONG,
No you don’t. Especially, if God has impressed upon your spirit that it’s wrong.
This site apparently not allowing speculation in the comment section, even when it is admitted as such, so let me just say this: Doug Weiss was raising red flags to me even before any of this came out. When you start bringing “sex therapy” into the Christian mix it is only going to end poorly. Sadly, Joni appears to have chosen the wrong route here, the worldly route. If that is indeed the case, Daystar will fizzle out shortly.
I believe Johnathon and Suzy were gelous of Joni. It’s like two spoiled brats. If they can’t have their way. They will throw a tantrum
But what about the sexual abuse of their daughter that was covered up?
Is Doug Weiss a legitimate “DR”? Has anyone looked up his so-called credentials to see of he really earned the title of “Dr”? Has anyone looked up the divorce records to see who was the petitioner?
God is vomiting this whole mess out of His mouth. Retribution WILL come. Vengeance is HIS and HE will repay. Sin is fun for a season. Shame on Joni and the Board.
Thank you Jonathan for keeping your cool, holding to your convictions, and defending your wife and yourself. God has better things in store for you than Daystar. At the holidays family squabbles are painful, but the Lord will give you the strength to enjoy them with your wife and kids and friends.
When I read this Doug guy is a “sex therapist”,
I immediately thought of Dr. Ruth that used to be on TV in the 80s. It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. Why does a sex therapist need to be on any shows on Daystar? People need to have an anointing to be in ministry.
Sounds like a wonderful ministry.
Joni, Joni, Joni…. Power corrupts. Marcus will turn in his grave……
Really Joni? You are the voice OF ALMIGHTY HOLY GOD? Your words for God and your late husband do not agree with your actions, and do not glorify God and honor Marcus. First of all you found another divorced man two months after Marcus death second of all you stubbed
your own son behind his back and heart for fame and fortune. You are covering a sex offender.
If Jonathan did this of spite, why would he make up something and involve his girl in it.
Wake up Joni and repent before God ALMIGHTY stretch his hand on you and your false ministry.
Jonathan and Suzy I believe any word have said about this. I cover you with love and prayers Rebeca come out and speak up and do not listen your mom.Reachel send your J….to his country and keep an eye to your children
It was happened to my family not ones but 3 times to the little girls from very close family members. Jimmy Evans is a false teacher ,he twisted the holy word to cover Joni’s and Doug’s marriage and divorce. Jonathan, have God first in your life and then your family and love your wife as your self and blessing will follow you all the days of your life. Be strong in the Lord and the truth will win in Jesus name, amen.
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“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” (Proverbs 27:6)
If people treat their friends like enemies, they will befriend their enemies. Or is it the other way round? :). Jonathan and Suzy, stay strong. You are genuine friends to Joni although you are being treated like enemies.
This whole mess could end really well if daystar goes out of business. Just imagine all the false teachers who will lose a major tv audience. Less people deceived and less people throwing their money to the wolves would be a good thing.
Though true, they also have some solid teachers on there. Those include the late Adrian Rogers and Charles Stanley, Greg Laurie, Jack Graham (full disclosure: I’m a Prestonwood member), David Jeremiah, Robert Jeffress, and Ed Young (the father, not the son).
Mark, I should have been more clear and said “many” of those with shows on Daystar. Thank you for commenting on that point.
You are welcome. And even if Daystar does go under, many of them are also on TBN (yes, it has its problems too).
i love what you specified at the end. I agree. Ed was a good teacher even if he skipped teaching on 1 Cor 12. lol
They are all snakes. Beware those that tickle your ears! This is a warning to each of us, not just those other idiots who cannot see the narcissism behind what they do. And please forget what they teach for a moment, and focus on what they actually do. All of them have dirty laundry, most you will find something questionable on, on this very site.
I just wondered why Joni didn’t mention the sexual abuse of her granddaughter in her Daystar statement. I do believe because she could not deny her involvement in the cover-up, which makes me extremely sad. Her husband should know the importance of not covering up such an offense. May God work this whole situation out according to His will.
The Bible says “leave and cleave.” I think that Jonathan is finally grasping that scripture and is standing united with his wife. He probably tried to sit on the fence. The abuse of his child and the sham wedding of his mother forced him to grow up spiritually!! >>>>>>>>Jon and Suzy should start their own ministry.
Joni’s video was a direct blameshifting attack, coated in Christian platitudes about how they have always been about the gospel at Daystar. Well, here is a wonderful gospel opportunity for her to honor her adult son and encourage him to grow into the man God wants him to be. It’s clear she is very controlling. Why make such a big lengthy deal over the viewer comment regarding their marriage?? Its good boundaries and respect to allow people to say yes and no to what they feel convicted to.
I’m having a very hard time understanding how “God Honoring” Joni’s ways are to treat her son in such a dishonoring manner. An Adult child needs to be allowed to be free in who they are in Christ, and who He has made them to be for His purpose. Allowing people to grow into their own giftings, actually benefits the whole Body (even within a family or business).
The words Joni Lamb and Jimmy Evans are using are the same words I heard when i was in my church, which was part of the Shepherding Movement of the 80’s and early 90’s. The teachers of the Shepherding Movement repented and called this so-called ‘spiritual authority’ abuse.
I stopped watching Day star after Joni wed this “Doctor” Weis. His credentials are very sketchy and he doesn’t deserve the title of Doctor.
To everything said so far, I would address what Joni informed the public in her official statement, “We have already taken legal steps to defend ourselves…”
Presumably this means a defamation lawsuit brought before a secular court, which violates Paul’s command to the saints (1 Cor. 6:1-6) — and brought against her own flesh and blood, no less!
But let’s pray that she follows through on it.
I’ve had experience with being a target of frivolous litigation conducted in the name of God, and I discovered that the unbelievers are immune to spiritual intimidation. While the church people get lost in the weeds of ‘submission vs. rebellion’ debates, the secular courts ignore that red herring as irrelevant religious jargon. They zero in on the real legal issues in a New York minute.
If Joni drags them into court, she will get a much-needed wake-up jolt.
The underlying problem is Daystar’s support base which has enabled this abuse. Apparently it’s been building up for years. The donors will likely underwrite the cost of that lawfare also.
Hoping TRR tracks that side of the story as well. If only the secular media exposes the enablers, the shame of the church will be even greater than it already is.