What of this soaking business?

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HisHolly

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Artists are calling their music soaking music.. Thoughts?
 
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wwjd_kilden

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I had a bath yesterday, that's enough soaking for the weekend thank you :p
 
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HisHolly

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My sentiments exactly!
 
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NewWine

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Maybe it's music to soak in the tub to?
 
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HisHolly

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I know.. wonder why the change? Watching them describe it creeps me out
Willie-T said:
I think the Bible used the same terminology, but called it, "meditation."
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NewWine said:
Maybe it's music to soak in the tub to?
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I think it means giving God more than just a passing time of "feeling good", but really spending hours immersed in Him..... and nothing else. At our church, we have nights devoted to "Soaking Prayer."
 
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Willie-T said:
I think the Bible used the same terminology, but called it, "meditation."
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well....

gonna disagree...and you can throw things at me...I dodge good

but anyway, meditation in the Bible meant on the word or God

soaking...is all in the way you feel and it's not all that new...it's like when you stand with your hands raised and kind of totter back and forth with your eyes closed all blissed out

IMO, depending, can be bad or good

I would like to think if I am doing, it's all good..,.,.,.:p

it may have been called worship at one time, but of course that is no longer hip enuff


addendum: just read yr prayer comment above^^^^

sounds intriguing and useful
 
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Some churches believe in soaking in the Holy Spirit---when done correctly---we are then empowered to to God's work---when done incorrectly---people are absorbed in themselves and not Christ...
 
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88 said:
Some churches believe in soaking in the Holy Spirit---when done correctly---we are then empowered to to God's work---when done incorrectly---people are absorbed in themselves and not Christ...
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I love that.... "correctly" or "incorrectly." Ya got the rules posted on the wall somewhere?
 
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HisHolly said:
.. Thoughts?
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in one of Ted Dekker's fictional books, the circle trilogy, he writes a ((i think, beautiful)) metaphorical image of our immersion in Christ, where a diseased race of people are healed both physically and mentally by trusting a figure who appears sometimes as a lion, and sometimes as a young boy, who tells them that they must swim into the bottom of a certain pool of water and drown in it. doing so, they are raised new, redeemed, and made whole.

when i think of this 'soaking' business, i think not of taking a long hot bath -- but of drowning in Him, & never thirsting again. it's a bit different conceptually than what i *think* is the ideology behind that particularly loaded term ((although i don't exactly run with any groups that speak that way, so i'm not entirely sure without going to do some reading)).
 
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Soaked in luxury?
 
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posthuman said:

in one of Ted Dekker's fictional books, the circle trilogy, he writes a ((i think, beautiful)) metaphorical image of our immersion in Christ, where a diseased race of people are healed both physically and mentally by trusting a figure who appears sometimes as a lion, and sometimes as a young boy, who tells them that they must swim into the bottom of a certain pool of water and drown in it. doing so, they are raised new, redeemed, and made whole.

when i think of this 'soaking' business, i think not of taking a long hot bath -- but of drowning in Him, & never thirsting again. it's a bit different conceptually than what i *think* is the ideology behind that particularly loaded term ((although i don't exactly run with any groups that speak that way, so i'm not entirely sure without going to do some reading)).
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Nice one, PostHuman. I concur. Also, I loved that scene. :)
 
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HisHolly said:
I know.. wonder why the change? Watching them describe it creeps me out
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No need to be creeped out by it. But the word 'meditation' does seem to scare many Christians away, because it's most often associated with Eastern mysticism and New Age practices. Soaking on the other hand, is drowning in the Word of God through praise inspired by His Word.
 
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Thanks
Tintin said:
No need to be creeped out by it. But the word 'meditation' does seem to scare many Christians away, because it's most often associated with Eastern mysticism and New Age practices. Soaking on the other hand, is drowning in the Word of God through praise inspired by His Word.
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HisHolly said:
Artists are calling their music soaking music.. Thoughts?
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I find the idea of it creepy myself. Gives me a weird vibe, and when I get that I'm usually right.
 
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