[Jo S]

While you guys hash it out in brotherly love, he’s my quick take. Scripture says that when a Christian prays, it is the Holy Spirit in them that intercedes. It’s not by an effort of their own.

David was a prophet of God. The Holy Spirit didn’t indwell him like it does today in genuine Christians, but he was given a measure of the spirit. When David called on the Lord’s name, he did so in worship and in distress. This was because the Holy Spirit interceded on his behalf. Scripture is God breathed and since these instances are recorded, we know they were inspired by the Holy Spirit.

When you create a practice, like “calling on the name of the Lord” (as found in the LC’s), it’s designed to bring the inflow of “spirit” into a practitioner rather than being an organic outflow of God’s spirit from an individual. This is works based spirituality and is what’s known as mysticism. I know this is a touchy word and subject for many here because I’ve received a lot of backlash in the past for it, but it is what it is. When a movement isn’t biblically based they always fall into this type of spirituality. This is true of Mormonism, Catholicism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the LC’s.