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Originally Posted by Trapped
I spent a little time scrolling through the other memorial videos for Benson.
-Ron Kangas is back, clearly having lost weight. He managed to get a nice slap down on all the saints by saying something like, "I have to be frank, but very few brothers and sisters in the church life are actually mature".
So......whose fault is that exactly? How much more "in the central lane" can they get at this point?
I was thinking about the overall common thread of the subjects in the TLRU YouTube channel, and it's as if the local church is Satan's way of keeping believers immature. If discerning good from evil is something mature believers do, if having knowledge keeps you from being stumbled in some cases, if having distinctions is what allows you and your gifts to flourish, if dropping the LSM false God's economy can make you more open to other Christians who do not follow God's economy, if the church is stunted because everyone "gets out of their mind" .... all these things are barriers to growth, maturity, wisdom, etc...
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This was a sobering realization I had when I left. A sister openly challenged their "Overcomers" doctrines and one of the elders' wives said that she had to be removed from our group chat because several people had "nightmares" after listening to her. I was initially excited because someone finally wanted to have open and frank discussion about testing Lee's doctrines, but then I was disheartened to see that so many people were scared. Outright scared. I responded by sharing 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and talking about the importance of proper teaching, correction, rebuke, and instruction in righteousness, and then people started looking to me and crying "death." One college-ish aged sister in her paranoia said that she suspected that the woman who was kicked out had gotten a hold of my phone and that all my texts were just full of "death." I had not even met the woman by that point but rather only interacted with her in that group chat. It was so surreal.
When I saw how scared everyone was to talk about even the CONCEPT of teaching, correction, rebuke, and instruction in righteousness, I realized that what you say is exactly what is happening: Many in The Lord's Recovery have their spiritual growth stunted, so much so that they are scared, terrified even, of real discussion and discourse. They use the Lord's Name as a pacifier to avoid these things and would only ever want to sing and "Pray-Read" and chant his Name rather than truly wrestle with the Scriptures and grow as children of God. The Lord's Recovery, as far as I saw, was no different than going clubbing. People didn't meet to really mature and grow. They met to have a good time.