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Originally Posted by Ohio
I have to go with Tomes here. The Book of Acts and church history show us untold cases of real, heavenly blessing which initially was no doubt the "Lord's move," but in time became institutionalized by human maneuvering.
The institutionalization of God's move does not prove it was never "God's move" in the first place, rather it shows fallen man's unending tendency to "package" God and His blessing. The Recovery was not the only movement spawned by the 60's Jesus movement in the US. The real tragedy is LC leaders thinking they knew how to harness "God's move" for their own benefit.
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I wonder if the "institutionalizing" of God's move is actually a problem. God set up something that was intended to be a certain way. And it mostly was from Mt Sinai until Jesus. Then Jesus changed it all, first with a new way to understand and do righteousness and justice that the Law of Moses commanded.
Then with the church. It was God's move. It took a few years to get it all in motion. First at Pentecost. Then spread to the Samaritans. Then to the Gentiles. And needed to make all those Jewish thoughts meaningful to Gentiles (Paul's job).
Is the pattern pretty much set now? Is God not always moving within that? Do the living have to change it all up for it to be "fresh and new"? Is the real problem that we have been convinced that doing the same thing for a period of time is bad, so they give it a bad word, and the word is "institutionalized"? (Nothing like another obtuse reference to the Moodies.)