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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
What I don't get is how in the world did our spiritual leaders stop walking and stop abiding in the Spirit?
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To me it is the transition from a Christ-centered ministry to a church-centered ministry. Now, the church-centered folks will quickly argue that 1) the church is the Body of Christ and 2) they are doing everything by the book.
But you look at statements like RK mocking people who "want to be workers" and it flies in the face of everything Jesus taught and stood for. It is fully in accord with building up RK's organization: i.e. getting "workers" who are "fully in one accord" [with Headquarters]. But it is completely against the dictum of Jesus to be nothing in this age if you want to be something in His kingdom, and that of the Father. And it (deliberately, I argue) ignores the idea that to do "these things to the least of these My brothers" is to serve Jesus himself. Instead they fixate on "good building material" for the organization's progress.
I missed the Elden Hall days but they were a mainstay of every meeting, even if you didn't overtly mention them. Because we were hollering and yelling and waving our arms to recreate the "Spirit of Elden Hall", when that Spirit had long since passed. Witness Lee's many "flows" - door knocking, vital groups, and so forth, were all vain exercises to create replicas of something - the Spirit of God - which had long since moved on.
It's like a bunch of aging hippies reminiscing about Woodstock. Instead of living in the now, they all tell each other what "peace, love, and happiness" used to be like.
The Christ-centered life is always new. The church-centered life quickly becomes a museum to whatever "glory days" you once experienced. Meanwhile the glory is abiding somewhere else.