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Originally Posted by aron
The other day I saw a website promoting one of the “servants of God”, Dong Yu Lan.
A servant of Christ for the work of expanding the kingdom of God on the earth and the growth in the life of the children of God
In the year 1975, brother Dong received the burden from the Spirit to help the churches in Brazil and South America ...The churches have experienced a great spiritual renewal from that time on. More than three thousand churches were raised in all South America as a proof of his labor in the Lord, confirming that the burden which he received was from the Spirit.
I don't think I need to go into detailed, excruciating analysis of these statements. Suffice it to say they are clearly biased.
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I know that I promised not to go into excruciating detail in the Dong encomium, quoted above, but wanted to make one point to show how flawed I think their logic is.
They say that the raising up of thousands of churches is "proof" of God's favor. If that is so, then surely God is delighted with Mormons, right? I mean, 14.8 million Mormons (per Wikipedia) can't be wrong!
Or, for that matter, how about Walt Disney? Surely God blessed him greatly. Look at the marvelous growth his company has had.
And the Roman Catholic Church: at one point they owned something like 2/3 of the real estate in Europe. Very successful. So why was Luther so angry, anyway?
And so forth. This was what I meant by the vanity of "bean counting", here on this side of the judgment seat. It is vain, and it shows you've been distracted from the Spirit, which is given "without measure", but is only limited by your ability to receive. If you start counting, you have lost your aim, and will surely suffer loss.