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Originally Posted by Evangelical
The oversight is provided by the leading brothers in many cases. Many a time a leading brother has stood up and requested that we prophesy in a certain way, or to clarify something someone has said.
Anything can be fleshly and not spiritual, I think we all know how much focus Lee put on one being in their spirit and not in their mind/flesh. So your concern is shared but also well understood and your concern sounds more like something Lee would say. If it should happen, I don't see anything wrong with building up one's emotions and sense of self-worth by sharing their experiences with others. God treasures us very highly and so I don't think self-abasement is necessarily a good thing. I still think this is a better situation than a church which muzzles its congregation. The solution to the problem of people speaking from their flesh is not to stop people from speaking. And sometimes it is not so cut and dry. For example, a person may speak something very much from Christ for 30 seconds and then at the end tell a funny joke which gets them back to the flesh. Or they may start in their flesh and then the Spirit takes over.
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Actually, as Lee taught it, there is no reasonable resemblance to what Paul taught because the core statements that there is a gift of prophesy that not all have and that 2 or three should prophesy is wiped away by misapplication of "all" in chapter 14. "All" was within a defined subset, not without bounds. The fact of oversight by the elders does not correct this.