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Originally Posted by aron
God had been reduced to an object, processed for personal use - mastication, enjoyment, assimilation. We had become the center and focus of the narrative. We fixated on our overcoming, or not... our "making it" versus being "in a dark room" for 1000 years. Witness Lee, at the center of the religious enterprise (really, a personal 'guanxi network' per cultural affiliation), manipulated us by making us introspective. He gave us a puzzle - ourselves - and the only way out is to regard the MOTA and his message. His version of "God's economy" was central to that exercise. It was all about you, exercising your spirit, enjoying, reigning in life. It is really a subjective maze, a hall of mirrors, manipulated by the MOTA... are you "enjoying" today? Or, headed for the "dark room"?
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Very interesting point, but I enjoyed the Lord yesterday while calling on his name and reading a little bit from a morning revival. I felt the spirit yesterday as I do from time to time when I practice praying, calling, and exercising my spirit. So not for nothing was Lee's doctrine on the economy of God
I rather like the concept that God made himself small in order to become assimilated into the being of his believers. That to me sound verrrrrrry Biblical and very practical, and nothing else brings me closer to God than exercising my spirit. I never got that concept or practice in the denominations when I went to their meetings. Their meetings were focused on being a better person, behavior modification, prosperity gospel, or at best some attempts at expounding the word of God. Even over the years watching random preachers from time to time you don't hear them talk at all about the spirit or enjoying the Lord or calling or anything from the economy of God. Mostly they touch on things like forgiveness, justification, works, love, things like that. Some of what they say is very good, but if you consider that if God wants to dwell in us and his mode of doing so is the exercise of the spirit, then most, if not all, of modern Christianity falls short of that