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Originally Posted by zeek
It seems you are close to remembering WL's teaching regarding "taking Christ as your person". It wasn't just a matter of looking to Jesus. It also had to do with Jesus looking back. WL identified the Greek word for person with the inner gaze of Christ as in "beholding and reflecting the Lord" via which the believer is transformed. Now y'all please explain to me how this is a shallow, off, or worthless teaching. Tell me that it has no connection with genuine inner Christian life. On the basis of this teaching alone, I think we should not be hasty to throw out Mr. Lee's teaching all together. I'm stating right here that this teaching corresponds with my experience of the presence of God.
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To me taking Christ as my person meant my person disappears and only Christ is left. Like I said, I don't know what that means because I've never been able to experience it.
If taking Christ as your person simply means being focused on Christ as the special person in your life, to the point you respond to his gaze then I have no problem with that. But why not just say so, rather than the vague "take Christ as your person," which could be interpreted any number of ways?
I remember Lee saying that taking Christ as your person was higher than taking Christ as your life. But I think that was a misteaching because Christ
is life.
I think Lee spent to much time thinking up new teachings when he should have been preaching the gospel or working in service groups or something like that.