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Originally Posted by Ohio
Thanks for your comment, "By then, if you recall, there was practically no anointing on WL's speaking. He was doing his summary of the New Testament and completing his life study work. Dry, dead, no light." For years (maybe 20) I felt that the problem was only with me and my heart. All those around me continually sung his praises, so I did too, but the most I got was doctrines. The anointing was also replaced by wild promotionals at the trainings.
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Yeah, Ohio, but I wanted to respond to Hope myself and say, "Really? Practically no annointing you say? But maybe just a little bit? What does that mean, exactly. No light at all? Huh. Was that really what you experienced? Brother Hope, I would have to differ with you somewhat."
But then I felt, well, I'm not really here to defend Lee. I love brother Hope's portion so let Lee's real advocates do that. Let his writings stand and fall on their own merits.
But I still wanted to say, I was blown away by the stuff in the Conclusion messages coming to it as a baby Christian and 20+ years later I'm STILL waiting for LSM to publish those messages on the New Jerusalem where I saw some lovely things indeed.
Leviticus? OK. I'm in agreement about Leviticus.
A lot of the practical ramblings on 1-in-4 and 1-in-20 and such? Come on! You might as well try to pray-read the Wall Street Journal.
I just felt Hope's description was overly harsh especially for that particular point in history, 1984-1985, that he cited. I'd guess he's just shifted the dates a year or three in his memory, though, because I'm on board with both of you by the first training on Life-Study of Leviticus for sure. I tried so hard to get my enjoyment out of the training messages at that point but it just wasn't there anymore.
I was sucking on dry bones just three years after getting so used to the rich flavor of Christ.
Maybe what y'all are saying is that in this period the annointing and the light wasn't what it was in even, say, 1980? I still tend to disagree based upon my experiences with the printed messages later on, but I concede that I wasn't there to know how things were before 1985....