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Originally Posted by Terry
Now the blended brothers/coworkers tend to say the ministry is the New Testament Ministry. When I suggested there are other ministries that minister the New Testament Ministry, the brother's response was "Where!".
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This is a conditioned response. The reality is that the ministry of the New Testament is occurring all around us. It may be a story by one, a psalm or a hymn by another, a word of encouragement by someone else.
But WL's acolytes are strongly conditioned not to see this. In essence, they are "betrothed" to the ministry of WL, and are not allowed to turn anywhere else. Thus, their efforts are expended not to see Jesus Christ in Scripture, but to see WL's output as the "High Peak" of God's revelation to man. And yes this included the Jesus Christ of Scripture, but was crowded full of so many "extras" that Jesus Christ nearly got pushed out the door.
Now it's possible to de-condition oneself, and/or re-condition oneself, and to see anew what the Spirit is speaking to the churches, but one certainly has to go "against the tide", to quote Angus Kinnear. And it would be quite a challenge indeed for a collective LC assembly to tap into the New Testament ministry occurring around them. But it's been done and it can be done again.