I have seen attacks like Joshua before, by people who say, we are not so bad, we are the same as those guys over there, so leave us alone.
The idea is to appear as being reasonable, silence the obvious flaws and failures of the critics, and then say everything is fine. That is the strategy of the hypocrites, the white washed tomb pushers.
Look at the spiritual problem. Neck deep in legalism, to be set free by a real experience with Jesus which breaks free into ones emotional core of love. Oh everything of legalism must be wrong and everything of the Spirit must be right.
So the pendulum swings to the extreme, people behave to their own defined view of spiritual authority, but then you start to see the failure. How can you admit this side is equally flawed by human nature, by the wrong emphasis, by imputing on God things of the flesh. Is it denying the Lord, or waking up to the reality things are more difficult that you first thought.
We are surrounded by good fruit and tares. We are commanded to love, to empathise, to be salt and light. It is the hardest walk any of us can do, because it is us who must walk, not some possessed being in a drunken stupor.
There is good reason why emotional outpourings often lead to chaos, because it must be in hand with truth and order, while truth and order without emotion and reality is also dead.
The way these super spirituals talk the orphan or widow is empty while the rich indulgent self obsessed preacher in their most expensive suit possible is the person you should listen to and admire. You choose who Jesus really supported?
