[HERn]

Both of those parenthetical statements are problematic for me.

"(rather than necessitating them to either read them off a tablet of stone somewhere or hear them from an external spokesman)"

I think that I do need to read the written commandments especially from Jesus. I also think that one of the needed functions of the elders (church leaders) is to speak about these commandments. I think the Holy Spirit (I'm using this term because folks in the recovery get mixed up if you say spirit or just Spirit, if man's un-regenerated spirit can be written as "spirit" sometimes I think the recover saints think the regenerated spirit is "Spirit") needs something to "work with" like the written word including the commandments.

"(no longer necessitating a spiritual mentor because He now indwells us all)"

I think I do need spiritual mentors of the kind like Paul, John, Timothy, my pastors and elders at church, also men and women outside of my church denomination, dead or alive! If I say I don't need spiritual mentors, then I could end up like Nee after some weird interactions with Ms. Barber, or like Lee who only took Nee as his mentor. For these two men no one on earth could mentor, perfect, or even help them; which is why they drove the car of their denomination into a deep ditch where the blendeds have learned to enjoy living in the mud of false accusations, character assassination, hiding truth, blowing the trumpet of deceit, and generally misleading the saints.

There really is a hierarchy in the recovery and it's who can be mentored by whom. The elders will tell you that when you are in a room with other believers look around to identify who is ahead of you and who is below you. What about everyone looking to Jesus and consider themselves servants of one another willing to receive help from anyone?