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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Read the new post. One observation is you say that they ask others to repeat, "Oh Lord." From my experience it was always, "Oh Lord Jesus." Is there a reason you truncated this?
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Years back WL gave some message in LA about simply being in the spirit by saying 5 words. Then, according to the story, he asked the Lord "
what 5 words?" He was inspired to say, "
Oh Lord Jesus, Amen, Hallelujah." It was an inspirational, rather than theological, message. It was encouraging to many of the brothers and sisters, especially during the "Jesus Movement" when so many were leaving the archaic traditions of denominational Christianity with rote responses and silent prayers.
Then, as with all things recovery, the 5-word saying got formalized into a mechanized means of salvation. Initially what had begun in faith by the Spirit became vain babbling to be mouthed rather than spoken from the heart. Nearly all things Recovery were such. Pray-reading was also this way -- initially praying Bible verses eventually becoming robotic shouted repetition for a few cheap "amens."
This pattern sadly matched that of the Galatians, "
are you so foolish, having begun by the spirit, are you now perfected by the flesh." (3.3)
If you can understand this phenomena, then you can readily ascertain why so many gifted brothers and sisters once came this way, only to later leave. For the most part the recovery began well, very well for many, only to end badly, and very badly for most.