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Originally Posted by aron
So when you see Jesus move in the gospels, he does so with fluidity. He assembled the thousands in companies of hundreds and fifties, and set ones over them. . . .Then he "fired" the company. He broke it up. It became fluid again..
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Contrast this to what we too often see in practise. A certain group that I have familiarity with, which I won't mention by name because in a certain country they may persecute members, had a special chair for its leader, whom I shall call "Brother X". Everybody sat in vinyl chairs but Brother X up front had the stuffed leather chair. I saw people after the meeting, standing by Brother X's empty chair, taking photos of themselves standing by it. One young girl even sat in the chair, to the nervous gaiety of the onlookers. Such boldness!
Now this particular organisational system was set up where Brother X always had to be right. Even when he was wrong, he was right. So if he made a mistake, for example, and put a close family member over the flock, and the abuse inevitably started, and the presence of the Holy Spirit left, too bad. Because we were rigid, and "Brother X is always right." Or if he said something about the Bible that we didn't like, too bad. "Brother X is always right."
It is completely predictable, like a toy in the enemy's hands. Whatever happens, Brother X is always right.