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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Okay, I get it. But not everything has to be answered by how the LC has twisted something, does it? As you said, the answer to it is simple - No, the Christian life is not possible without the life of Christ within us.
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Don't forget that you are asking the question in the middle of a context — "Making sense of the Lord's Recovery Movement."
So, as we both said, without context, it is entirely true. Those without the life of Christ (the unsaved) cannot live the Christian life.
But there are those who are busy (within the context of LC/LRM theology) declaring that there are many impediments to living the Christian life. Even reasons that you should not try (at any particular time). And they even make statements suggesting that you are not "in Christ" if you have not been engaged in certain kinds of spiritual activities, much of which involve peculiar LC practices or the reading of LC "editorial" materials (writings of "The Ministry").
So, on what basis do we think that we need to try to figure out how it is that we "experience the cross?" I'm not saying that it does not happen, or is somehow a completely wrong theological question. But rather, on what basis do we need to be seeking to figure out how it is that we "experience the cross?" Is there some statement that suggests we need to be figuring this out?
I would think that it is more likely that we need to seek to understand what it means to live the Christian life — a life that displays the nature of God/Christ. Not just figure out who can live that life (I think we already know).
That doesn't mean evangelism in the popular sense, but righteousness and love. Be the ones who are pure in heart, hungering and thursting for righteousness, etc. Something that displays the One that we have found to be the "beautiful One," as a song has said. The One that we can be seen to trust in when things are not going our way (when you don't move the mountains I'm needing you to move). The One that is mighty to save.