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Originally Posted by Hope
Wasn't the information control kind of mind boggling. I noticed that many of the saints in "the Lord's Recovery" had a very very linear way of thinking. It was on-off, black-white, right-wrong, good-bad with no gray areas or margins for operating in.
... How can anyone be so narrow minded to think God has only one flow or work or ministry?
Just consider ... Be flexible. Be open to more than one interpretation. As amazing as it may seem, It is possible for there to be multiple views and explanations for the various experiences we may have had in the local churches.
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The grand irony here, for me, is that Christ actually does quite well in the arena of scepticism and cross-examination; we do not have a "sick-bed God" who must be kept in some special room, apart from the harsh realities of the rough-and-tumble world. In the marketplace of ideas, with its cold light of examination and inspection, the vain things quickly get exposed for their inconsistencies, their phoniness and unrealistic wishful thinking, and the reality of Jesus Christ just shines brighter and brighter. The more you look the better He looks. So we shouldn't be alarmed by those who seem to be skeptics and cynics and scoffers. Many of us were at least somewhat "negative" until one day we gave Christ a try and He came through with flying colors.
For example, the whole "one publication" thing struck me as
prima facie absurd; it revealed a land of fearful make-believe where we must be careful lest anyone says or does something wrong and our whole enterprise might crumble. No, I say, Let's throw a party and invite all the scoffers and sceptics and cynics and bad-mouthers and all the lame and the halt and the wierdos. When Christ comes they (we) all get healed.
The idea of trying to protect the "pure" interpretation from the "leaven" of deformed christianity creates the worst leaven of all. As I said somewhere recently, information control is a sure sign you're in desperate trouble; at best you have stasis, with your museum of static dogmas, and at worst you have rigor mortis, buried in a tomb full of dead letters.