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Originally Posted by Ohio
That's exactly what legalism, pride, and self-righteousness do.
Both Nee and Lee criticized the Exclusive Brethren for being "overly objective" in their teaching emphasis. Actually they were not. They made the experience of Christ into a science, much the same as Lee did during the Perfecting Training, i.e. "just flip the switch," and turn on the Spirit. Remember that? Mechanized spirituality in the name of subjective experience of Christ.
What really damaged the Exclusives, the Little Flock, and the Recovery was the Deputy Authority, whose endless teachings superseded scripture, and whose authority robbed the Lord of His.
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In the LS of Exodus, Lee used the phrase "
the science of drinking" (Msg 43). If everything can be diluted to some sort of 'science' or "flipping the switch" as Lee so loved to claim, then there would be no excuse for anyone to not be completely on board with the whole paradigm of "God's economy" that the LC teaches.
I used to wonder why all these promises made in Lee's ministry never worked in the way claimed. I thought I was deficient. It's not until I looked around that I realized these thigns didn't work for anyone else either.
So I think what our friend
Evangelical has labeled as "religious observation" isn't so bad after all. Millions upon millions of Christians are out there living a fulfilling life glorify God. So many in the LC are stuck in a rut of wondering what they're doing wrong.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Many Christians believe that salvation just means going to heaven when they die. The rest of their life, purpose for existence, and their environment is unrelated to that fact, including going to church, which is just a routine exercise of religious observation. This is the kind of person who does not live according to God's plan, because they don't see that salvation is the very purpose of their existence.
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