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Originally Posted by 77150
Using that approach you could nit pick every single Bible teacher out there. To me Bible teachers are like cooks. You could have a cook that makes the best lasagna you ever had, and others could complain that all they ever cook is Italian food. It is impossible, in my opinion, for any one person to be "balanced".
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And therefore it is impossible for any ministry to be "The Ministry" and to be from "The Minister of the Age." It is therefore completely wrong to assert that the only worthwhile ministry is one ministry. And I am not referring to God's ministry, but to those ministries of men, including Lee. God's administration is the kingdom, not a Christian sect, or a single earthly ministry. And claiming that your ministry is "the New Testament Ministry" and therefore synonymous with God's ministry does not make it so. Only potentially
part of that ministry.
And this is the reason that taking in from multiple sources is good. We still need some kind of anchor. And sometimes that is a basic foundational belief system, doctrinal statement, or even particular minister. We simply cannot make "me and my bible" the replacement for Lee. But even with such an anchor, we need to be open to consider. We may discover the need for a new anchor. Mine is not singular, although it tends to be of similar base. But I consider far outside that base.