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Originally Posted by OBW
Last, whether or not you are a child of God is not a matter of internal moral compass (Rom. 8:16).
Did any of this actually refer to the conscience? I am hard-pressed to find that it is so. Yet we all listened and/or read these things and simply accepted them as true. Why was that?
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By the time I left the Recovery in 2005, the matter of "
exercising your spirit" became little more than shouting accepted slogans and anticipating an "Amen" response from others. This practice had very little to do with the spirit, especially when our heart was not connected to what we said. We all were guilty of this, though in the GLA there were some who attempted to check this practice as promoted in Anaheim.
As a reaction to this "vain babbling" stressed by the Blendeds,
e.g. "let's all stand and exercise our spirit calling on the Lord 5x" before we continue with this Whistler bloodbath called the quarantine of TC, some in the GLA began to teach that "exercising your spirit" should be interpreted as exercising your conscience, since our conscience was the "leading" part of our spirit. I felt this teaching was healthy, even though it was designed to expose the errors at LSM.
If our leaders in the Recovery could publicly promote "
exercising your spirit" while regularly backstabbing one another, then what was happening to our collective conscience? It's no wonder that we were tagged the "
shouters." Since this kind of two-faced double-souled hypocrisy had been going on for decades, it's no wonder that we had any conscience at all, at least not when it came down to how we treated one another. We already had a history of suing any Christians who attempted to expose our errors, and eventually we were suing each other. We already took one publisher to the US Supreme Court, so what was a little squabble over real estate and bank accounts? It was a sign of a ship-wrecked conscience when it came to how we treated God's other children.