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Old 04-18-2018, 12:03 PM   #105
TLFisher
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Default Re: Relationships/Courting

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Originally Posted by Trapped View Post
If those things don't take pre-eminence in your life and consume you, then there is nothing wrong with doing them (unless the Lord has actually touched you about something). But when Lee paints with those kind of strokes, then he creates, from youth, people who are afraid of normal, human, non-sinful things, and who, as adults, can also not enjoy doing those things. When so many things are made sinful, then there's quickly nothing else left.
Quotes you've provided is Lee expressing his opinion. I've tended to take such statements lightly. My influence growing up was Gene Gruhler and Francis Ball. Not WITNESS LEE. He to me was an author from my parent's bookshelf.
By the time I was nearing completion in college I had read Fermentation of the Present Rebellion and Reconsideration of the Vision. Negates any influence Lee could have had on me.
As far as doing things someone might consider sinful, you've might your point, is it pre-eminent? My point some one makes it a rule, it's legalistic. Approach others have given in fellowship, do it until the Lord occupies that part of your heart. For me it was baseball, basketball, and football. Gradually, my loves for those sports has waned.
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