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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
It's not an addiction. Wrong word. Addiction implies a craving, a need for another hit. This is NOT what LSMers have. They do have plenty of "hits" of Lee up on the shelves but, unlike true addicts, they don't ever use them. I'm speaking in generalities here, but I do know what I'm talking about. Very, very few LSMers actually read Lee's stuff anymore except when they have to. That is, they will read the HWMR since it's required reading (and many cheat on that) and they will peruse a Green Book when they need to plan a teaching or sharing. But otherwise, you could put those books behind a glass covering and no one would notice.
So what is it that causes a woman to wake up in a panic attack and relieve it by vowing to go back to "The Ministry"? It's fear, plain and simple. LSMers would argue it's the fear of the Lord. I believe it is fear from a lifetime of indoctrination. But it is not an addition, this I know.
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That may be true in your neck of the woods, or with the people you know. But I still know people who tear into Lee's ministry as if they can't live without it. Like I said before, there is no one individual's view of the Living Stream Church which is the complete view.
I know there are large numbers of LSM Church goers who no longer read the material, any more than the average Catholic hasn't opened the Catechism since they were preparing for Confirmation. With the people I am talking about, it is definitely an addiction.
If you have something coursing through your veins that makes you feel secure and comfortable, and then when you are suddenly without it, you become fearful, and paranoid, I would say that is an addiction.
Anyway, I’m done with this one. We are going around in circles now.
That reminded me of a Jr. high football game I saw once. The middle linebacker laid hold of the ball carrier’s shirt tail and they both spun around and around in circles before it finally dawned on someone to broadside the runner.
Roger