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Originally Posted by awareness
You say it so much better than I do.
Fear with "Overcomer." Overcoming meant that we had to be more given. more committed, and more driven for "the ministry."
Overcomers are special. They aren't like the rest of the ordinary saints. They're the ones that are truest to Lee, like the Blended Brothers, the living example of what it means to be an Overcomer.
Then ... if you aren't going to be a overcomer, you risk outer darkness ... and then fear stepped up.
I see cultic methodologies going on?
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Nothing like this is taught in the local churches or by Nee or Lee and I have never heard of outer darkness being used as a weapon of fear. You have this perspective about overcomers because you are viewing them from the point of view your own degraded condition.
Rather than overcomers being someone special above and beyond a "normal Christian" - an overcomer is someone who is a normal Christian. Every believer is meant to be an overcomer.
In other words, it is not that the bar to be an overcomer is set too high above and beyond a normal or ordinary believer, it is that the bar to being an overcomer is set at 'normal' but it might look high for someone who is in a very poor condition.