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Originally Posted by Terry
Very bizarre how a brother in Samuel Liu who in these testimonies displays consistently anger management issues. ... What is it that keeps a brother with anger issues exempt from discipline? Seemingly an untouchable.
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I wonder if it is more common with charismatic groups, but from my observation they often exalt the leaders as if they were the special vectors of the "holy fire", or "God's blessing." Then, when the inevitable abuses happen, whether they are monetary, power, sexual, or whatnot, the response becomes, "touch not God's anointed." As if somehow there are two sets of rules, one for the proletariat and one for "God's anointed".
And in rigid, controlling groups like in the Lord's Recovery, those who rule from the podiums also think nothing of reaching into the audience of the rank-and-file and touching them, who in the NT are
also God's anointed. In the NT we are all kings, and we are all priests. This is a perversion.