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The goal?

The goal (purpose) of our instruction is LOVE (1 Tim. 1:5)

The "True Light"

فَالنُّورُ الْحَقِيقِيُّ الَّذِي يُنِيرُ كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ كَانَ آتِيًا إِلَى الْعَالَمِ.

"the Son..can only do what He sees His Father doing" (John 5:19)

Today I was listening to a very convicting message by Dan Mohler as he was basically taking apart the common charismatic expression, "I felt led" (or worse, "I just didn't feel led").  The context of his comments had to do with the reason most Christians who believe in healing actually don't pray for sick people (or injured people) when they see them.  In short, Dan's exhortation is that we simply don't ever need a "special word" from the Lord or "leading" to approach a person that Jesus died for and longs to love through us.   In the tradition that I come from (which shall remain nameless at this point), the "doing what the Father's doing" teaching made a lot of more Reformed-minded Christians who believed in the present-day operation of the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit feel more comfortable with their notions of God's sovereignty in healing.  Sadly because many of them didn't actually believe it was