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Originally Posted by Ohio
With such a background, the church of God often needs a healthy counter-ministry, with the pendulum swinging the other direction, to bring us into balance. The apostle Paul also brought such balance in his ministry, in contrast to the Judaizers coming from headquarters, who attempted to bring the church under subjection, using the same techniques used by Nee and Lee, and the same "spiritual authority" doctrines based on Moses.
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While I generally agree with what you have said, I am not sure that a pendulum swinging is the way it would be according to scripture. Rather than just going the opposite way, the answer should be to go the right way, even if that is at the bottom of a pendulum's swing. Not saying that there are not true opposites to arrive at in some cases, but not in all cases. When we speak so broadly, it seems that just doing a pendulum swing is an opportunity to miss things to the other extreme and invite the return of the original extreme that we fought against.
In all of this there is something that neither elevates nor diminishes any of God's people. And that is the way of loving God, neighbor, and one another. It changes the gender fights into nothings. It turns authority into the job of a true servant. And so on. Neither of those are on the other side of the pendulum. They are in a different approach to the whole thing. The one that is actually in the Bible.