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Originally Posted by Terry
This hits close to why "everyone speaking" in a Sunday morning service is scrutinized in non-LC Christianity as it's not safe. Without formal training in the Word there is increased likelihood someone can speak errantly. Having witnessed errant speaking in LC prophesying meetings, there's no oversight to put a halt to it. Rather getting as many people to speak is encouraged even when it is off.
Unqualified with natural gifts can easily transform the speaking platform into "groupthink".
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I have seen this too, and realized with a jolt one day that it is a big source of the so-called "church kid concepts" that plague many for years and years. Wrong speaking is still given an "amen", so there is no cue that what a person said is off unless you are sharp and thinking enough to catch it.
Is there a solution to this problem? Paul does say that he desires that we all prophesy. How do you make sure that only the "certain sounding" prophesies occur? How do you practically make sure that errant speaking that does NOT build up is squashed, without embarrassing or deflating a person?
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