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Originally Posted by OBW
But sometimes I wonder if just because it happened it was a blessing, or just what God managed to do with it. .
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I agree with this, and therefore would modify the following statements of
HERn:
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Originally Posted by HERn
I learned that all the members of Christ's body should function.
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I learned that all the members should function, but it wasn't until I got out that I was able to practice this. In the Lord's recovery movement (LRM), "function" meant standing in line after a conference or training, then walk up to the microphone and speak, or better yet shout (
''exercise your spirit!") for two minutes from the written text, verbatim if possible, until someone hits a note on a piano. Etc, etc - "Function" in the LRM was typically so circumscribed as to be a parody of the word.
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Originally Posted by HERn
Being in The Lord's Recovery helped me renew my devotion to my Lord Jesus Christ.
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Being in the LRM helped me renew my devotion to my Lord Jesus Christ - I so loved the lines, "We love you, Lord Jesus!", and "I love the Lord!" - but it wasn't until I got out that I got to focus on the Lord Jesus, and not "God's Economy", "the Up-to-date Speaking", "the Processed Triune God", "the Ministry of the Age", "the Central Lane of God's Current Move", "God's Oracle", "One Trumpet" or any of these other "flavors" that were added.
We all remember that subjective word, don't we -- "Flavor"? Like whatever was done, if the Big Kahuna up front said it didn't have the Right Flavor, Kaput! Over! Finito! See ya, bye!
The only thing you got to love was what was being dispensed by some person who fancied themselves to be God's sole vector on planet Earth today. Gag, cough, gag . . . again, this becomes an insult to the word love. And it has nothing to do with the gospel.
These things in the LRM, all arguably good, were 'hooks' to get you to buy in, then they were suppressed or taken away. It's like falling in love with an abuser, and then pining for that first dinner date with the flowers and wine. Before the beatings and name-calling started.