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Originally Posted by aron
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it was good for me, a reprobate and wild sinner, to have some structure when I came out of the world. On the other hand, the structure eventually became a cage.
So maybe God has allowed human efforts, for a temporary prop, as the believers gradually mature and sink into the reality of the teachings of Jesus, and now He is calling us out of them and into the Spirit's leading. It is a matter of maturity. Flowdalism keeps the believers in a perpetual state of infancy, forever waiting for the latest edict to arrive from headquarters.
Jesus recognized Satan as "the ruler of this world" (John 12), and He conducted a marvelous, and ultimately successful, spiritual guerilla warfare. The established "church" has lost this path. They instead try to conduct warfare on the open battlefield, and they lose every time. But maybe the Flowdalists don't care: as long as they have a captive audience for the HWMR, they are content.
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I hear what you are saying, dear brother alan, I really do.
My prayer is that LSM would be humble enough to learn from their past mistakes and to find a way to provide the structure needed by babes in Christ without stunting the growth of the other members. Using HWMR as an example, providing excerpts from other ministries would be an excellent way to provide structure without incorporating the leaven of "flowdalism". The recent Summer Training covered "The Crystallization-Studyof the Gospel of God". OK, I admit Nee and Lee shared some very helpful things related to this subject. But did these two really have the final word on every aspect of the Gospel of God? Are their words always the most enlightening and the most helpful regarding all the aspects of the Gospel of God? Might not some portions from dear ones like John Wesley, Hudson Taylor, D.L. Moody, C.H. Spurgeon, George Mueller, Bakht Singh, TAS, etc. be extremely helpful as well? A big portion of HWMR could still be dedicated to Lee (with the usual tiny smattering of Nee), but portions from other dear ministers of Christ should be included whenever appropriate. Portions from other ministers of Christ would be a big step towards saving our precious brothers and sisters in the LSM-loyal LC from the unscriptural situation of being "of Lee".
By the way, the best "morning devotional" book I know of is
His Victorious Indwelling by dear brother Nick Harrison. This book is a collection of 366 daily meditations and quotes which explore Christ’s victory and how it can be lived through us. These daily portions are taken from the ministries of many, many men and women of God such as Oswald Chambers, A.W. Tozer, Hannah Whittal Smith, Watchman Nee, T. Austin-Sparks, Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, Corrie ten Boom, John Wesley, Stephen Kaung, George Mueller, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Hudson Taylor, etc. Such a book is an incredibly powerful antidote to the "flowdalism" we were immersed in.