[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by aron

Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That is a commonly cited verse. But it also says, If you believe that God has raised Jesus from the dead you shall be saved. So, to believe, to confess, and to call are placed in the same context. If I confess Jesus as Lord, this means that I believe that God raised him from the dead, that he is Saviour of the world, that my sins are forgiven, and that I am one who calls upon the name of the Lord, and that I am saved. All of these are used interchangeably. And nowhere does Paul define any of this as God's economy.

When it comes to "Pray-Reading", rather than taking a biblical term and twisting and contorting until it was beyond recognition (like Lee did with "Calling on the Lord") in this instance he made up his own term out of whole cloth. And this would not have been so bad, or so dangerous and harmful, if it was not established as part of some "God-ordained" set of beliefs and practices, neatly proclaimed as "God's Economy".

Over the years I was in the Local Church, I invited many of my friends and family to a meeting. Most were practicing Christians. And almost without exception, they were confused at best, and many were deeply disturbed at the practices of Calling on the Lord and Pray-Reading. Some were so bothered they walked out of the meeting as soon as the monotonous chanting and staccato/repetitive type of Scripture reciting started. And it seemed to me that the more aged and mature Christian they were, the more they were bothered and disturbed. If God really did have an economy, I don't think that the teachings and practices of a group that claims to have invented/discovered/recovered such a thing, would be so offsetting, alarming and disturbing to other Christians.
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