To Local Church members, I heard a voice in the garden...

[JJ]

Here’s a link to the Boston song, in case it didn’t ring a bell what the tune is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufQUxoidxkM

And the verse it refers to is here: https://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/3-17.htm

OK so I am a child of the 60’s and 70’s who grew up listening to this stuff.

The story behind the lyrics I tried to fit to this Boston song is this:

At one of the last LSM conferences I went to in Anaheim a “Blended Brother” was giving yet another regurg of old Witness Lee “message” material and shouted with arm swinging “Now the Lord is the Spirit”, trying to get a rise out of the crowd. At that point it hit me that my understanding of that verse was bass ackwards. The Lord is the Spirit. So when the Spirit speaks, my obedience and freedom in Christ (not slavery to a ministry) should follow, because He is the Lord Spirit.

It seemed to me that this brother who was speaking wouldn’t know The Spirit of God if He was hit across the face with Him. Not much longer after that I decided I needed to heed the Lord Spirit’s direction to leave TLR (which is what He had been speaking to me).

Hopefully somebody get’s something worthwhile out of this.