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Originally Posted by Trapped
I had a similar experience after leaving. At the end of a service, the pastor came back to the microphone and announced "hey everyone, as usual, ABC Church is graciously allowing us the use of their church for our monthly prayer meeting this Tuesday night....etc....."
I was in the back of the room picking my jaw up off the floor, I was so taken aback. ABC Church was not some branch of the church I was at that day. It was another church completely. And yet they were happily sharing church facilities like real loving members of the same family in Christ. In an instant all the years of teachings about how divided Christianity is and how all we care for is oneness blew out of the water. I knew that we, who ostensibly hated divisions, would never do such a thing like opening our doors to another 'unrelated' group of Christians.
The local church's greatest tool is fear. If they make you afraid of having your vision dimmed by those "poor, shallow" Christians over there, then you will never go spend time with those Christians and won't have the chance to find out that the local church's representation of them is dead wrong!
Trapped
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I can’t help but wonder if when witness Lee showed up on the scene, Christianity was what he said it was and it has since changed? Does the LR still preach how fallen Christianity is / how divisive it is?