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10.26.2006

Hazardous waters... (but a good clarification)

I'm mixing languages horribly in some posts below. I think I can do it (I have understanding of both the Work language and the Biblical language, and experinece of both), but they require so many caveats and so on, even when writing for an audience you think is on the same page with you. Mixing languages is hazardous waters...

One main difference between the two languages/experiences is this, perhaps: the experience of regeneration and conversion as the Bible teaches it is a timeless "downward working upon you" process. On the other hand the experience of engaging B Influence, developing all centers, and developing magnetic center and connecting with Work knowledge and doing that knowledge is more a linear, climbing up from below process (for the most part, though there are timeless elements and so on, I mean for the most part).

The biblical doctrinal understanding of sanctification explains this. Sanctification has two aspects, one passive, one active. Passive, definitive sanctification is like God throwing down a fishing line and hooking you in your heart, despite you wanting anything to do with it. Active, progressive sanctification then is the effort you engage in, once you have that hook in your heart, to climb back up to God. You are both reeled in and you make efforts to climb. The former is the Christian experience, the latter is the Work experience.

Both are needed. A mainstream Christian who doesn't have a language like the Work engages in 'some' efforts of active sanctification, but they are really lost regarding that, and it is the glaring missing element in the mainstream Christian experience (and they know and feel this; and they usually descend into mere moralism eventually, and even if they don't their idea of effort in sanctification usually resides so far up from the practical level that it is almost worthless).

So one can even say a real Christian who also has the Work language (connection with it, valuation for it) is simply a more complete Christian. It is what all Christians who begin to desire the more practical teaching are led to, in some form. The Work happens to be a very, very practical, rather inspired and "answer all questions" form. Potentially. If you've found it and truly value it then you have it for a reason.

(Here is a very pure and useful diagram for the above.)