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Originally Posted by Ohio
I long have protested the accusations of "modalism" regarding the Trinity teachings of WL, but here I have to say that we in the LC's were definitely taught a concept shall I call "flow-modalism." Flowdalism?
Flowdalism says that God could really only speak His "up-to-date" word thru one minister at a time. All other contemporaries had to go to such a minister for the "flow." In the 1st century, ones like James, Barnabas, and Apollos should have "lined up" under Paul, because he alone had the flow. In the 20th century, TAS lost the flow supposedly because the flow was passed from Nee to Lee.
Does this sound crazy? How exclusive could we be? Thousands in the LC's today, like me at one time, believe this wholeheartedly. Flowdalism for them has risen to the status of "the common faith." I was once a staunch advocate of flowdalism. I am now a recovering flowdalist. My sickness has gone into remission.
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O my dear brother Ohio! "Flowdalism"!!
I suppose this thread was getting rather heavy and needed some good comic relief! Your new term caught me completely off-guard and I literally laughed out loud!
Of course, as you point out, dear brother Ohio, there is a very serious, sober, side to this matter as well. "Flowdalism" most definitely leads to exclusivity because it causes us to look down upon - even to completely disregard - every other minister of Christ besides the one who is supposedly "the unique minister of the age". O God, have mercy on us and keep our sickness always in remission.
TAS's ministry, so absolutely centered on Christ, so full of emphasis regarding the importance of inward reality, was desperately needed as a balancing word in the LC's for decades. How utterly sad that TAS's rich ministry became a victim of "flowdalism".