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Originally Posted by Ohio
Brother Awareness, I think you're on to something here with this new word "flowdalism." I too, though, at one time, the staunchest of hard-core flowdalists, could not help but wonder deep down how "small" our God had become. His entire administration had to operate thru WL! Yet I still believed in flowdalism! I believed that God had only one oracle, one spokesman, one unique minister of the age, at any one time, by which He could further His economy.
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Hello dear brother Ohio,
My family and I just returned home after a full day of fellowship with some dear brothers and sisters in Christ. I had a really neat experience today which is related to our recent discussion on this thread.
There was a brother at the gathering whom I had never met before. He and I began talking across the table, after feasting on a truly delicious love feast. It turns out this brother has read just about every single TAS book ever published by Emmanuel Church (the ones who make TAS books available for free). He also has listened to just about every single TAS sermon available on
austiin-sparks.net. Talking with this brother reminded me that the flow from TAS truly originated with the Lord and is for His whole Body. I have found the same thing to be true of the flow from other gifted ministers of Christ in the second-half of the twentieth century, such as Ian Thomas, Bakht Singh, F.F. Bruce, Roy Hession, Basilea Schlink, Stephen Kaung, etc.
"Flowdalism" robs us of the riches from these other flows of God and causes us to be "of" one man only. Thank God for His Word: "
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety." (Prov. 24:6b).