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Originally Posted by aron
Well, I argue that this "going on" is about people, specifically your neighbor. How you treat the person next to you is how you treat God, and how you treat others is how God will treat you. And while it's to some degree measured by what we might call "the body of work", i.e. the totality of your actions, it's more importantly determined by how you are treating people right now, at this moment. This determines whether you are, in fact, "going forward" or "going backward". You are either moving toward or away from the proverbial "finish line" or "promised rest" or what-have-you depending on your relations with others.
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I just got around to reading this post of
aron's, and I'd recommend everyone read it. It's short, to the point and readable (
); and in its own way it sums up what's wrong with the LRC system--that is that
the LRC system is not about people, it's about the system.
A while back it dawned on me that everything in God's reality is about relationships--either our relationship with God or others or ourselves. That's all there is. Everything is about God and people and how we feel and think about them and treat them.
I recall a few years back bringing up this matter of relationship, arguing that Lee's view of the Trinity almost totally misses that the principle of relationship is built into the Triune God. One borderline LCer (SC) got indignant and more or less scoffed at the idea of relationship, considering it shallow, touchy-feely and marginal.
That's the Lee effect. Minimizing relationship. But when you minimize relationship, you minimize people. When you minimize people, they becomes means to an end. They become fodder for the cause. That not only misses the point of everything, it stands in opposition to it. It shows you have no clue what God is about and what is truly important to him.