Bob is too big of a narcissist to realize the hole he dragged himself into.
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LOFCOG asked:
Does the witch doctor's ordination and alleged succession also extend to his animated Cartoon Bob character as well?
I'm convinced that it was Evans' idea, not Bob's, to have Evans lay hands on Bob. When you lay hands on someone, you are showing yourself to be their superior. Evans needed to lay hands on Bob to show his African flock that Bob was subordinate to him. But doing this screwed up Bob's claim to legitimacy. Deep down, despite all his mincing and flailing about it, Bob didn't trust his accidental "ordination" from Gaylon Bonjour, so he was willing to accept a real and intentional one from Evans. But you can't ordain someone to an office higher than you hold, unless it's some special one-off miracle like Bob used to say happened when Gaylon laid hands on him. Once Bob decided to supplement Gaylon's ordination with Evans', he lost all claim of being anything more than another evangelist. He can't be a prophet anymore.
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I can almost hear the curtains shaking in Bob's office as he reads this. But are they shaking because of Bob's angrily flailing and flouncing arms, or because of the demons who are stirring Bob to anger?
At a certain point, when excluded, or backed into the twin corners of official doctrine and church policy, people will often turn to their own gut feelings to determine whether God is inspiring or using them.
People who are not musicians can tell when a musician is giving an inspired performance. Inspired performances are what draws crowds. Theologians do not generally refer to their sermons as performance, but lay people can most definitely tell when a sermon is inspired, or not. Once again, an inspired performance draws crowds! From an external perspective, a spectator can perceive aspects of a performance to which the performer is blinded, due to his state of being trapped within his own body.
This is one reason why there are continuing, collossal misfires. People do not read their audiences accurately. You know you are not misfiring when the energy begins to flow back to you! At that time, you no longer feel the need to complain that nobody respects or believes you.
Instead of "laying on" hands, why don't they wash each other's feet?
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