waysider

"There's a seeker born every minute."

"Blame the victim." That's the connection. It was "our fault" for not believing. It was "the fault" of the O.T. people for being disobedient. But, the idiom has an added element in that it attempts to explain why God didn't intervene for a positive outcome. Here, you have to rely quite heavily on the idea that people in the O.T. could not understand spiritual matters and therefore, had to be given examples they could understand by their five senses. I don't see any way to draw from this concept without first accepting 1.) dispensationalism/to whom it's written, 2.) Spiritual understanding, in light of the difference between *spirit in* and *spirit on*, 3.) accepting that believing equals receiving, and 4.) The consequences of disobedience. Putting all four of these together at the same time is something that seems to be unique to The Way and its derivatives.

Whadda ya mean late? The night is still young! :P Oh, sorry. That was your clue. Heh Nope. Don't recognize it.

The Joker....Steve Miller Band I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road.

The Way used a variation of "the idiom of permission" to explain why bad things happen to those who leave "the one true household". Yep, walk outside of the "hedge of protection" and .....the boogie man will gitcha! And, they blamed you for giving the devil permission to assault you by virtue of your being out of fellowship and lacking in your believing. In that sense, the "idiom of permission" is common fare in cult groups.

Someone To Love....The Great Society http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzyDLwUgFdc&feature=related Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.

R.I.P, Mr. Otis. Thank you for your massive contributions to the world of music. http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/01/19/johnny-otis-of-willie-and-the-hand-jive-dies/

Now, ....This is a church!

All men are liars......and that's the truth -------------

They don't "research" and they don't "teach". (in the conventional sense of the word.) So, what is it, again, that qualifies them for preferential status?

We were always told we were the best so we must have had the max factor.

We've already said ‘Goodbye'.

and don't forget the dog movie that introduced the X factor

Because .....DC5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwQw6yVwdo&feature=related

"It served a lot of different interests to mysticize this stuff and give it a lot of Ooooh factor." The A.C. needed lots of Oooh! factor to cover up the yaaaawn factor.

I wouldn't attend for all the Figpep in Figgyville.

Somethin' to ponder. All that talk about how more S.I.T.= more revelation....hmmmm Typical day at A.C......lots of S.I.T./not much revelation. Leads me to believe we were taught something wrong about at least one of the two....Or even the whole concept.

I've tried to use google to search this out. What I've found is that all roads lead back to PFAL or Bullinger. You can tell they are ex-Way people by the phrases they use and the (misrepresented) scriptures they use to make their case. In addition, one must subscribe to the PFAL variety of dispensationalism/*spirit in* vs. *spirit on* concept to make any sense of it.

Roll away, Roll away, Roll awaaaaaaay 'cmon everybody, sing with me!

As with anything else, when you start to paint it with too wide a paintbrush, the picture becomes distorted.

Well, at least you're being honest about it.

When the service is over, do they sing "roll........? well, you know...

You know he wasn't really my Grandpa, don't you?

(Don't) Gimme that ol' time religion.