Nothing wrong with being a movement
There is nothing wrong with being a movement. The problem comes in when some movement considers itself something more than a movement.
God has used movements down through history. Each movement has something of God and something of man. It's silly to expect any movement to have no traces of human tendencies, or to dismiss a movement that God is legitimately working in as "a movement of man." Except is extreme cases, almost no movement in Church history was purely "a movement of man." The category, for most practical intents, is meaningless and useless. It's simply idealism.
This idealism that insists on everything being a pure "move of God" is unrealistic and self-deceptive. It's unrealistic because anything where people are involved is going to be imperfect. It's self-deceptive because it leads people to always be seeking the elusive "holy grail" of God's pure move. Such a thing only exists in heaven. On earth we have to work with what we have. It's also self-deceptive because it leads people to think they can define this pure move or, worse, have actually found it.
This is exactly what happened in "the Lord's Recovery." It was idealism run amok. Such a thing results in two grave errors: Feeling one needs to defend to the death the "pure move" one is "in," and the corollary, condemning all other "movements."
Stop looking for the holy grail. Work with what you have and what God has put before you.
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