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Cal · 08-23-2011, 02:10 PM

When I was in the LRC, pray-reading was not about prayer and it was not about reading for understanding. It was for using the word as a vehicle to get more in the Spirit. It wasn't praying so much as it was declaring or speaking. It's not bad in itself, it just (like everything else in the LRC) got taken to an extreme. And it got touted as the greatest thing since sliced manna.

That's what is really annoying about the whole thing. The LRC couldn't just have a practice. They had to believe and try to convince everyone else that their practice was the greatest thing ever and that everyone else is a complete idiot for not realizing as much.

I agree with OBW to this extent. Books like "Lord.. Thou Saidst" were not written to encourage a broad audience to pray the Word. They were written to defend an LRC practice which LRCers called praying the word, but which just as easily could be called "chopping verses into pieces and repeating the pieces over and over in the hopes of achieving a spiritual experience."

08-23-2011, 02:10 PM	#51
Cal Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: USA Posts: 4,333	Re: Combating LC Arguments When I was in the LRC, pray-reading was not about prayer and it was not about reading for understanding. It was for using the word as a vehicle to get more in the Spirit. It wasn't praying so much as it was declaring or speaking. It's not bad in itself, it just (like everything else in the LRC) got taken to an extreme. And it got touted as the greatest thing since sliced manna. That's what is really annoying about the whole thing. The LRC couldn't just have a practice. They had to believe and try to convince everyone else that their practice was the greatest thing ever and that everyone else is a complete idiot for not realizing as much. I agree with OBW to this extent. Books like "Lord.. Thou Saidst" were not written to encourage a broad audience to pray the Word. They were written to defend an LRC practice which LRCers called praying the word, but which just as easily could be called "chopping verses into pieces and repeating the pieces over and over in the hopes of achieving a spiritual experience."