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Originally Posted by Ohio
And this forces us to recognize the extreme nature of much of WL. Many just vomit out everything even remotely related to religion and the Bible, leading a totally secular life. Without the will or the means, that’s all they can do. But real healing takes work, doesn’t it? And God has promised us sufficient grace.
As I departed, I faced the haunting question, “how did something so good become so bad?” Over time I discerned that the “so good” was really Jesus and my LC back then, and the “so bad” was how WL and his successors had “leavened the whole lump.”
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I can understand why people reach a summary judgment about the local church because they want psychological closure. But I haven’t reached that point. Perhaps that’s because it involves people who I understand as souls who I may only know them as surfaces whereas God knows their hearts.
I haven’t yet watched the latest unchained video but I intend to because I read that it’s about church kids and while I wasn’t a church kid myself, all three of my daughters were born into the local church so perhaps they would get something out of it. If I think so after watching it, I’ll send them a link. Have you seen it?