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Originally Posted by aron
True. But as RayLiotta pointed out, that is not the way it is on the street. The publication puts a public face on it. Then, within the actual LRC fellowship, what they call "the church life", you are clearly given the method in which to "pray-read". And if you go into the meetings and deviate from collective practice, you will be marked. You are no longer "one".
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How do you ascribe so much to this book? It is a booklet, RG is not called the author or editor but the "compiler" because it is a compilation. To my recollection the vast majority of the quotes were either from the Bible or Christian leaders outside of the LRC. I don't know if he quoted WL at all.
Second, I have travelled to many localities. I have visited every locality in Texas, a few in the Far East, as well as many in California, Florida, Atlanta, NY, Boston, etc. In my experience (which is very limited since 1995) pray reading was practiced differently in different locales. Some emphasized it, some didn't emphasize it as much.
In Taipei it seemed to be quite different from the US.
Things may have changed, perhaps the influence of the LSM and BBs has truly permeated the entire LRC (is the proper term mingled, don't know
) But if that is the case why are you ascribing that to RG's booklet published 15 years prior to 96?
I was there when he was researching it, when he wrote it, I read a rough draft of it before publication. His burden was to prove that praying the word was not some kind of far eastern chanting practice brought over from China but was scripturally sound. As I said it was designed as a Polemic to defend the scriptural basis for praying the word back to God. RG is not a theologian, so he didn't add his own 2 cents, instead he compiled a lot of quotes, put them into a good order, and left it at that. To my knowledge he didn't get into the LRC practice other than to put it into the same sphere as praying the word back to God.
Why is he being attacked and vilified for this?