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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I wouldn't say Lee's concept is impersonal. It is very personal for liquid God to get inside us. .
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The "dispensing" (oikonomia) is about obedience. God gives (dispenses) then expects His agent to comply with His will in dispensing. See Jesus' parable where He uses this very word. It is translated "stewardship".
If I give a truck full of chickens to a driver, and tell him to deliver them to Fort Wayne, and the driver makes it half-way and then sells them by the roadside and buys a plane ticket to Acapulco, then the half-way obedience of the driver doesn't count. You can see this again and again in the NT. 1 Corinthians and Hebrews come specifically to mind. It's not about masticating the Processed and Consummated Triune God and becoming God in life and nature, but the economy of God is about continual obedience.
Only the Son can make this claim. "I come to do Thy will". The Father is love, but from Adam and Eve on down, His human agents failed. Only one Sent One, the Messiah or Christ, fulfilled the Father's will. And now our faith is not in ourselves but in Him. The obedience of the Christ becomes the foundation of our faith, and this faith is now reckoned as righteousness, and now the Son says, "Obey My commands, even as I have obeyed the Father".
Relations are built on behavior. Continual behavior. Not one thing one day and another thing the next. Teachers like Lee distracted us from our responsibility to obey the Son, with ideas of supercharged grace. "Merely eat God, and you will become God in life and nature." Get the liquid God poured into your human (God-shaped) vessel. Very little about obedience.