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Originally Posted by Steel
But both sustenance and growth are matters/aspects of constitution.
Nothing I have read in WL's ministry says or even suggests that eating Christ is only for the "...sake of eating...".
And more...
There is no such thing as "...eating for the sake of eating...".
Eating has a spontaneous result regarding its effect on the person doing the eating.
A person cannot eat Christ without a result of being both sustained by Christ in doing so and growing by Christ by doing so.
And this from my experience is fairly common understanding among believers who meet as the local church.
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Eating is not done for the purpose of constitution. It is a matter of necessity. That is why we eat. WL seemed to have ignored that fact. In the LC, they will make declarations like "eating is the way!" Or the lyrics of a song come to mind "eat, eat more of Jesus..." They make such declarations all the time, encouraging people to 'eat'.
But absent from the equation is the 'why' part of it all. That is why I called it
eating for the sake of eating. If someone literally had a motto of "eating is the way" then it would be safe to assume that they have an eating disorder. That is what I'm trying to get at here. All WL's talk about eating was imbalanced. He claimed other Christians didn't understand or pay attention to the matter of eating. I would argue instead that he was overly focused on it, thus creating the illusion that others didn't give it any thought.