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Originally Posted by byHismercy
Do we really need to 'sense the leading' or 'sense life and peace'.....before we walk in faith in what scripture teaches us?
Isn't it just ok to speak the truth, call out the error, preach the gospel, being as much in obedience to His word as we know it? If I sit around and wait for some sense of peace and life, deeply known in my being, I would never do anything. Just saying.
I think the concept of waiting on a particular sense is one of the ways that the LC paralyzes its congregants.
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I'm right there with you. In one of the messages from the recent semi-annual training in December the brother was talking about not living by right or wrong but by life. He gave some example of it being "right" to visit a sick neighbor if you live in the realm of right and wrong, but if you live by the sense of life then you will ask the Lord "How do you feel about me visiting my sick neighbor?" before you do it.
All I could think is how strange it was that they would throw up the warning lights about something we are commanded to do - love your neighbor - and that if everyone lived by that strange teaching then everyone would be, as you said, paralyzed waiting for a sense that will simply never come.
I'm not sure that the New Testament ever talks of a believer "living by a sense of life". The LC somehow has created this separate thing called "life" that people are supposed to live by, rather than simply having a relationship with God.