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Originally Posted by Ohio
Thanks for your reply. If you read my post carefully you will see that I never defended the Recovery or any part of it. My long-term prayers for its members, simply stated, is for them to love the Lord, His word, and His people. My hope is they would cling to Him and never leave the precious faith which God has given to us all.
Far too many have left that system and never again cracked the pages of scripture, opened their hearts in love to the Savior, or enjoyed fellowship with other Christians. That’s the real tragedy. Perhaps you could join me in praying for others who have left.
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I guess I should have expected this non-answer “answer”, if I can put it in those terms. I have seen this methods for years, you take a shot at someone and when they ask you to explain yourself, you just say “let’s pray about it, it’s all about the members, or the body” as we all have heard many times. The blended are the pros at this systematic practice. I won’t persist, I’ll just know this for future references.
I will say this though, I’m all about praying for people. However, as I have stated in both of my previous posts, I pray that the members of the local church actually seek real living God FIRST AND FOREMOST. That they actually get to know real Jesus, and all those things that you mentioned will manifest themselves after that. I believe it’s the lives of people that need changes, not behavior modification, and or “intrinsic metabolic changes” that we have been lied about and told to believe for years! It’s the hearts that need to be changed not metabolism! It’s spiritual, and not physical or biological!