[Paul Vusik]

Unregistered,

One of the first steps in realizing and understanding what’s really happening is being honest with yourself, which from what I read you have already stated on. It’s seems to most people that it’s an easy thing to do that, but it’s not. I personally didn’t grow up in LC or was born into it, so I really feel for the people that did, since they never had a choice to begin with.

I know that I’m probably one of the more outspoken and critical people here on this forum when it comes to all teachings related to LC, and my advice may come from that stand point. I just say what I have done even recently when I was asked to join a few of those “meetings” and even one on one discussions. I believe in order to be able to decline all those things you mentioned, and not care about any of the consequences that you will face, you have to have something to fall back on, something where you actually are enjoying and being spiritually taken care of. One of the hardest thing to do as a person, is to build your personal relationship with God, independent of any man, any woman, any group, any interpretations, or ministries. It requires some trust and faith, to be able to function by just spending time with God yourself, and spending time in his pure Word. No footnotes, no explanations, no interpretations, but just trusting the Lord to shine His light through reading and prayer. You don’t need to do any of those exercises of your mind, getting into some spirit, just asked the Lord to lead you as He promised.

So when that becomes a part of your life, and you will just enjoy that time, you will be able to compare the two experiences for yourself, then you will be able to say NO, to all of the dead exercises and waste of time meetings and gatherings to worship those man that stand in the way for people to enjoy God. Just my two cents, hopefully you can get something out of it.