Re: The introduction of leaven
The problem I have with Lee's definition of leaven, aron, is that he defined it as mixture. And eventually that meant mixture of an ever-widening array of threatening things with a ever-shrinking base of acceptable things. Eventually, even things such as innocent frivolity and modern music became leaven. Any kind of non-New Way gospel effort was leaven. Pants on women was leaven. The list kept growing.
What it eventually became was paranoia. We lost track of the fact that to the pure all things are pure. Most everything has the potential to be a distraction, but that doesn't mean everything is a distraction. God just isn't that small. Not my God, anyway.
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