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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Please suggest where I could fellowship without any leaven? Certainly not with ambitious and divisive brothers.
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The problem with the LC is that they divide from others because of the corruption and degradation. Then, when you point out their corruption and degradation they effectively shrug, "Hey, nobody's perfect." They don't realize that was the exact same argument used against Martin Luther and John Wesley. "So what if we have faults. We [RCC, Anglicans] are the Body of Christ and the house of God."
When WN was in "dead religion" he wanted freedom, to follow his conscience and the truths as he saw them. But as soon as he got a following he denied others those same freedoms. Now, the buzz word in the LC is "restrictions". But WN and WL weren't restricted, were they? When WL wanted to create a for-profit motorhome company, and to put his son in charge, no problem. He called special meetings and told church members about the new investment opportunities. But if anyone has had issues with these kinds of conflicts of interest, then they've been called ambitious and divisive, etc etc.
Most people can see through all this, pretty quickly. Only naïve teenagers on college campus, who are barely more than children, and those whose perceptions have been dulled by incessant repetitive chanting will think everything's okay. The rest realize that something's very off but they got "wrecked and ruined" and now can't get out. Do you remember those words? "I got wrecked" for the Lord's recovery. Common sense, to follow one's conscience and inner voice, all got ship-wrecked.