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Originally Posted by Evangelical
The high peak revelation is more about all these things put together as "God's economy". God's economy involves salvation, mingling, "sonization"/deification, and then finally the corporate aspect of that, the New Jerusalem.
Possibly, he is the first to tie all of these things together under one umbrella term "God's economy" or "God's plan". But, he is not the first to see each of these matters individually.
All of these matters can easily be explained using normal terms that most Christians are familiar with:
mingling = prayer and bible reading
sonization = renewing of the mind/sanctification/transformation, the flesh/old man being crucified etc.
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One possible problem I see with all this emphasis in "God's economy" is we have all this talk about this presumably transformative process, and we get all caught up in the high-peak, high-sounding nature of it, and that thrills us....
...But what I've seen is there is very little talk or concern about what a transformed person actually looks and acts like. The LCM focuses on the process and assumes if they have the process then whatever results happen from that are transformation. So if the "transformation" you get is being more for Lee's doctrines, more staunch for the LCM, more opposed to the rest of Christianity, it is never questioned whether that's really what it means to be more like Christ.
But the Bible clearly tells us what the fruit of the Spirit looks like. It looks like 1 Cor 13. It looks like Galatians 5:22-23. It looks like the way Jesus went out among the most undesirable people and loved and served them. It looks like humility, care and genuine selflessness. It looks like love.
The problem I have with the LCM is so much of their behavior does not look like this. Their behavior looks a lot more like pride, aloofness and rejection of those they think are undesirable. They often come across more like Pharisees than Christians.
I'm not saying they are all bad, but their testimony makes me less impressed with all this being caught up in "God's economy," seeing so little evidence of transformation among them.
Ironically, in all the LCM brothers I know, I don't see that "God's economy" has resulted in much transformation. The transformation I see in each of them seems to have come about "the old-fashioned way," by going through trials, praying desperately to God and learning something unexpected about trust in God and humility in the experience.
Sorry, I'm not much impressed with the results of the so-called "economy of God." Not in myself or anyone else.