Reading the Bible does not Give us the Spirit

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

Perhaps I am "splitting hairs and straining gnats" (viewpoint dependent). Yet I think the matter of how people use their Bibles and the understanding of how they receive and experience the Spirit affects many things in their daily life. People seem to have gone through the Recovery without experiencing the Spirit much, because they were always attending meetings, praying ineffectually, studying Lee's writings and ministry rather than the Bible. But I submit to you, that in the denominations there is a similar thing called bibliolatry, where people are always attending church, studying the Bible rather than experiencing the Spirit. In fact there are whole organizations and denominations built around the Bible without the Spirit, because they essentially think or believe the Bible and the Spirit are one and the same. They are built on study and teaching of the Bible but they don't experience the Spirit.

Well consider two scenarios then ...

(1) Perhaps they were experiencing the Spirit and He led them out of the LC's.

(2) Perhaps they were not experiencing the Spirit and they figured they had enough of the LC's.

So much for all the false promises of the Spirit and life exclusive to the Recovery.