"The astute viewer will notice that the message Moore is sharing allegedly was given to her directly by God, thus it cannot be questioned lest we question the Lord Himself."In Lynchburg and at Liberty, we were taught to have these experiences. Now some would chide experience for being unbiblical or that it needed to be reigned in by biblical teaching, but few were the ones that would dismiss them. I remember one pastor doling on about how you don't question the postman, because he had a message from God. Then when he finally started his message, he took a verse out of context, so I immediately started questioning this postman. God "told" people everything from quitting the football team to real time messages for someone in the congregation. At Liberty and then at Calvary Chapel, they would describe experience as the muscles and the Bible as the bones and then argue about who had the correct balance.
But I am generally alone when I question their God. Generally everyone, is like I used to be, questioning the postman. Everyone makes mistakes, I hear. (Nowadays I think that you can use God claims to question the validity of their God.) We live in this plural evangelical culture advocating this experience (generally your personal one) and perhaps obliviously throwing out the experiences of most of the world. Like Moore though, these are supposed to be beneath scripture.
"The scoffers, I believe that God put on my heart, please test the spirit, pray and see if this is confirmed to you in prayer and in the study of the word."If one does not buckle and tries to defend their experience, they say test it with prayer and the Bible. Unfortunately, they never say test it against reality, but then again most experiences stay away from being testable in that way. Word salads like "spirit", "downpour", and "revival" are great, because you can say them and listeners hear different meanings. Moore is just another degree of this issue.
h/t Here I Blog
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