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Originally Posted by Freedom
The LCM have proceeded to attempt to spread their movement everywhere introducing the same cookie-cutter template wherever they go. It is for that very reason that they have been met with a tepid response.
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Originally Posted by aron
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..
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Freedom's point of the cookie-cutter template ("Just call O Lord - He'll change your life") makes me wonder about the source of the phrase, "The age of the Word is over; it is the age of the Spirit". That was the one of the catch-phrases used when the LCM went into the mainland after China opened in 1979.
My question is, What was the source of that phrase? Was it given by Lee, or taken out of context by some LCM operative working on the Mainland? Or was it merely the next phase in the Early Lee/Later Lee phenomenon, where the safety of orthodoxy was left further and further behind?
Safe, reasoned theology of thousands of years' precedent became cookie-cutter catch-phrases, some of it turned disastrous. At best it missed the beauty and depth of the revelation of Jesus Christ. At worst it brought ruin. The Shouters' experiences in the Mainland, following phrases like that, is case in point.