[UntoHim]

Timotheist and others.

This is a public forum. There are millions of public forums on the Internet covering just about every subject under the sun. There are probably over a million forums covering Christian/religious subjects. Even if you narrowed down your interest to forums that only cover matters related to Christianity, you would still have to choose between thousands upon thousands.

A forum must have a dominating subject. It must have a controlling theme. The dominating subject and controlling theme of LocalChurchDiscussions.Com, at least ostensibly, is "Making sense of the 'Lord's Recovery' Movement". At one point a thread was started entitled "Recovering From The Recovery", and I think this might be a better sub-header. I think I'll have our on-staff tech guy change that ASAP! In any event, I would like to point us to our Mission Statement which says "This forum is administered and moderated by former members of the Local Church of Witness Lee. Many of the forum participants also are former members of the Local Church of Witness Lee. As such, we believe we have experiences beneficial to others who have left the Local Church and have been damaged while faithful to that group. Our desire is to share with others who were hurt and broken by their experiences, and hopefully help others find their way back to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the true Gospel. To that end, we will be working hard to ensure that this forum comes in alignment with that purpose." It should come as no surprise that by "true Gospel" we mean the common, orthodox understanding of the Person and Work of our Lord Jesus Christ (aka his life, death, resurrection and bodily ascension to the right hand of the Father), and the common, orthodox understanding of the Trinity - to wit - God is One Being in three Divine Persons, all equal in essence, love, power and purpose.

Brothers and sister, friends and detractors, defenders and doubters, lurkers and trollers: The answer to false teachings and false religion is not for one to move to another set of false teachings and another false religion. In most cases, this is taking a person "from the frying pan to the fire". The answer to false teachings and false religion is a return to the true, genuine, unadulterated, biblical Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to "the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints", and a true devotion to "the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer". And yes, we will continue to be working hard to ensure that this forum comes in alignment with that purpose.
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