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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
It may be the reason "it was published" but I certainly don't believe it was the reason it was written. RG felt that God always had a people and through this research he felt it was proof that we were touching the same divine truths that others had discovered. This was something he consistently shared in the meetings. He didn't have any interest (as far as I could tell) in the way it was practiced, but rather in the truth. I say this because there was no push in Houston concerning this practice during my 4 years there. His push was on Life Study messages and service. If anything, this book would serve to steer the practice into more alignment with the practice of the church fathers. To my observation in Houston the biggest error of RG was in promoting the use of footnotes. This was prior to the RcV being published in its entirety. EM was the point man on this little charade. But by the time we went to Irving it was clearly a push. But he may have embraced it because "it is safe to imitate the apostle" (one of his teachings). Others have talked about how messy fellowship meetings can be, as an elder he may have felt this would be an improvement.
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The idea that Ray Graver wrote a book defending "pray reading" as a scriptural practice, yet was not actually trying to defend the prevailing practice of "pray reading", as practiced in the Recovery, is absolute nonsense.