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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Maybe we can try to limit the breadth of the conversation to try and answer this question: Is the practice of Pray-Reading AS TAUGHT BY WITNESS LEE AND PRACTICED BY HIS FOLLOWERS actually scriptural? I know that it is very easy for some of us to get offended by the mere asking of such questions. But I would ask you to step back, take a deep breath, and open your Bible. Please show us the verses that would confirm, by way of prescription, or at least description, this practice as it was taught by Witness Lee and as it has been practiced in the Local Church/Lord's Recovery.
Let's all try to do our best to not get sidetracked by answering this question with another question, or by obvuscating the matter at hand by retorting with ad hominems and flaming other posters.
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But, if I may,
Mr. Moderator, perhaps your question highlighted above obfuscates the original poster's --
Raptor -- assertion with "another question." You know like you always say, "stay on topic."
Wouldn't it be more productive, and conducive to the discussion between present and former LC members to direct the posters to address
pray-reading as documented in the book, “Lord Thou Saidst…” as
Raptor attempted to do when he started the thread?
All of us would agree that mindless chanting of words and phrases from some message outline published by LSM is akin to vain babbling, which Jesus Himself warned us about. Yet, as
the book, “Lord Thou Saidst…”
highlights, many renowned men of God have prayed the scriptures, and Paul also seemed to recommend in Eph 6.17-18.
Having visited with many diverse Christians, post Recovery, I found that many brothers and sisters have prayed the verses from the Bible, turning verses into heartfelt personal prayer to God, not robotically according to some prescribed LSM formula, but spontaneously or inspirationally as they perused God's word. Wouldn't you agree?
Isn't it better to "cut straight the word of the truth" (2 Tm 2.15) on this point, separating the good from the worthless (Heb 5.14), so that the readers could grow and be profited?