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Originally Posted by HERn
Maybe the recovery's God is too small.
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While I do not deny aspects of the premise of what I am about to mention, I do note that the LCM went so far in their "small" theology to sing about "How Small Thou Art." As I said, there is a truth in that. But just maybe the smallness of their God is that He (he?) is unable to be revealed in the lives of all Christians who love Him and actually stand as united in Christ while the LCM's God (god?) can only use the "perfect" theology of their little sect.
Note that one of the significant differences in the two is not the size of the God, but how they are expressed. One is in the lives of the people, the other is in the theology. And for the LCM, theology trumps living (or orthodoxy trumps orthopraxy). How you live is almost irrelevant.
Of course, the average member of the LCM does not really hold to this — at least not at that extreme and not in their personal lives. But they believe it is theologically true because that is what they are taught.