Originally Posted by aron
Drake,
Thanks for the advice, but my refreshment comes from the scripture, not my alignment with a ministry and the interpretation it promulgates. Which Lord do they call on in the LCM?
I see a glaring discrepancy between scripture and the ministry that purports to interpret it for all and sundry. Where does scripture write itself off by the dozens of chapters, as "fallen" and "vain" and "natural concepts"? If it were so, it wouldn't be scripture, would it?
Instead we got blind adherence to the ministry. We can pan the scripture as vain concepts, but don't question the ministry, the brothers, the current speaking, or the current leading from Anaheim. What Lord are we calling on, here, that's behind this encouragement? What kind of thinking is at work?
And despising the poor and the weak. What Lord is behind this? And displaying contempt for all but those who are abjectly servile to oneself. What spirit is at work, here?
I'll be glad to call on the Lord, but not that one. But thanks anyway.
And it may seem that I've caused a snit over a few chapters of the Bible. But it's not a few but a few dozen, and not just one book but several, including the New Testament. I see a clear pattern and the establishment of a precedent, where the word of interpretation is allowed to push the word of the Lord out of the way. And I think that this bodes ill, very ill. Not coincidentally, in the full-blown cults of Asia, some of whom btw call "Lord Changshou", they also share this curious trait: The Age of the Word is over, it's now the Age of the Spirit. That's the saying, among them. In other words, ignore scripture and pay attention to whatever the Guru is speaking today. That, not the Jesus in the gospels, foretold by the prophets and testified by the faithful ever since, is the spirit and the God at work. It's the God of this world and of this age, and I see it for what it is, and call it out.
Now, does that in and of itself refresh me? No. But neither am I confused or dis-oriented, or discouraged or dismayed or dis-heartened. The word of the Lord remains. Active, lively, moving. It is there, available for all. And yes, the Spirit comes.
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