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Originally Posted by awareness
Good thing you don't have a bunch of worshipers following you. Or you'd get the big head like Lee, and based upon all the eyes looking up to you, would think you are the oracle and some such more.
We made Lee what he was.
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Amen, and amen. I compared myself to Lee because I can read the Bible and see things just like he could. But I don't assume, in LC parlance, that "now I have the mantle" and everybody has to listen to ol' bruther Aaron. You know, when you read the Bible you'll say, "Gee, I wonder what bruther Aaron says about that verse".
No, I think we all can "see visions and dream dreams", a la Joel 2:28, and then come to the ekklesia and get our dreams and visions right-sized. Lee succeeded in the first aspect, and utterly failed in the second. And you are right: we
were his co-conspirators in the failure. We deified Lee's thoughts, if not the man himself. We made Lee what he was.
Btw, when I earlier wrote that "I follow John over Paul", I don't mean that "I am of John"... I just say that understanding-wise, just as Lee focused his revelation on a few verses from Paul, and forced John's and everybody elses' writings into his Pauline-centric line, I typically start my understanding from John's writing, and compare others with that.
But if the ekklesia doesn't give me a big resounding 'amen', then I'm willing to just drop my vision, or at least shelve it. Because I'm not going to go start some new movement around what I read or see in the Bible. If the apostle John didn't start something new, then I'm not going to either. John told the Asian churches, most of them, to repent. He even threatened one of them with expulsion (sorta) if they didn't get their act together. But you didn't see John leaving "degraded Christianity" and starting some new and supposedly "pure" recovery movement. So why should I allow my vision to separate me from the flock?