The Breaker Anointing
This is number 2 in the Adventure! series: it turns out that sometimes adventure is in your own back yard.
Back in February, Bishop Duncan (my boss's boss) used his monthly column in Trinity magazine to run a prophecy received from an English priest, The Rev. Mark Stibbe. It is entitled "The Year of the Gate," and my favorite line is this:
2008 is the year of the gate... And there is a BREAKER ANOINTING on those who are pushing up to the threshold of their opportunity.This prophecy and an hour of googling opened my eyes to the world of charismatic Christianity. Now I subscribe to the ElijahList and periodically follow a lead from there, as a way to learn about the side of my religion that I'm least familiar with. This morning I ended up on the Extreme Prophetic website, on the videos page, where I found a video on the subject of the Breaker Anointing. It's a 16 minute video, but check out this 3-minute excerpt:
When I first saw this, I was floored. I think I've watched it 15 times since then. I seriously can't get over it.
First of all, it's so erotic. I mean, the way she keeps convulsing uncontrollably, tightening her eyes and moaning, "Whoa!" And then when she shakes her head: "... to our ministry right now." Followed by the afterglow, straightening back, shivers, sunshine,"Oh! Whoa! Whoa! Oh WOW!!" It makes me blush!
Secondly, it's that weird mix of "give me money," and "God is blessing our ministry." I can't say that she's manipulative or malicious because I think she believes it. Deceived would be the strongest I could muster.
But even so, I certainly get excited at times, even to the point of exclaiming outloud (and I'm not talking about, um, marriage). A big part of the difference is the language, the story that explains the phenomenon. I call it "getting pumped," not "being visited by the Breaker Angel."
Oh man this is such an iceberg: gold dust, gemstones, and "there is a sound in the shofar that breaks things and releases things in the spirit realm."
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Here's a great overview of the wackiness. This guy Paul Harrison has tons of interesting stuff. Former fundy, now a "gentle atheist." Chicago. Word.
It may be disrespectful, but if I was somewhere and the preacher or bible teacher started acting like that, I'd have to leave for laughing. Or get kicked out.
I've seen more "erotic" than that, though, among charismatics. But I guess that's not new, is it. Medieval mystics had that intimacy with Christ going on, too.
Her last line, though, about Christ being in our midst, made me want to call out, a la Orthodoxy, "He is and shall be!"
One thing that interests me is how much the 'conservative' wing of Anglicanism is influenced by the charismatic movement -- even by extreme wings of said movement. And to what extent they can be happy bedfellows with the Anglo-Catholics (who, admittedly, are few in number - since most of the hardcore left between 1979 and now - and, in my opinion, are just hanging on for dear life amongst the Reformed, Evangelical and Charismatic conservatives).
God is not money, and this is not real.
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