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Originally Posted by DCP
We ask that you stand with us in praying:
1. That the Lord will anoint our brother’s presentation and open the ears of the attendees;
2. That the brothers will be led to the proper ones and be empowered in His grace to be His ambassadors;
3. That the paper would reach those who the Lord has prepared; and
4. That the enemy would be bound and that some of the signers of the open letter might repent.
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These "items of prayer" are very telling as to what kind of mindset LC leaders are living in. Clearly, there is a big push currently within the LC to gain acceptance on the outside. They have had some amount of success in this regard and the unfortunate side effect is the fact that it makes it more difficult for outsiders to clearly discern what the LC is at heart. Hopefully most outsiders see the LC for what it really is, however, there are at least some who have been fooled.
The LC has a very well-defined agenda, which is to promote WL as the MOTA. They also wish to legitimize everything that WL taught regardless of a lack of scriptural support or value in application. This is where the rubber meets the road in terms of LCers having any success in collaborating with outsiders. As long as they cling to their own unique agenda, their interactions with other Christians will always be for the goal of proselytizing, and these "items of prayer" are indicative of that.
On the subject of deification, what I feel to be one of the largest problems with WL's teaching (besides the lack of scriptural support for it), is that those in the LC have not been able to demonstrate that the teaching has any benefit even if it were more widely accepted. As I have said already, it seems their first and foremost goal in pushing WL's teaching of deification is simply because it's something that WL taught. With that in mind, consider just how sad it is that these items of prayer will be taken to heart by many LCers. The reality of it all is that the LSM/DCP brothers think 1) the ears of attendees at that conference need opening, 2) they are God's ambassadors, 3) the Lord has prepared some to be "open" to them and 4) certain conference goers owe them a repentance. Everything about their attending that conference is self-serving.
Finally, it seems that LC leaders have a certain liking for issuing these "items of prayer" that they impose upon members. It's sad that the genuine prayer needs of members are given a second place to these official "corporate" edicts. I would hope that eventually LC members would make the effort to go back to past corporate prayer edicts and consider if any of these things came to pass. I think they would discover that such prayers are meaningless and self serving to a group of brothers who considers themselves to be elite, having a special vision and teaching that everyone else outside the LC needs.