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Originally Posted by ACuriousFellow
Where calling may have once been a way to connect with others and seek the Lord earnestly, it is now a pacifier to stifle any unique thoughts and prevent people from asking tough questions. Where pray-reading may have been a way to try and set one's mind on scriptures, it has become an empty practice of repeating isolated verses from the morning revivals and life-studies without truly understanding the context that is in the scriptures. Where "getting out of your mind" was a genuine attempt to rely on the wisdom of God rather than earthly wisdom of fallen man, it turned into a way to shut others down whenever they had genuine critiques or concerns regarding what was said and taught in the ministry. Where "life vs. death" was an honest desire to let go of legalism and live with grace, wisdom, and discernment, it now became a way to ignore anything that made one question the infallibility of the ministry and let go of the responsibility of correcting and rebuking those who need it. Where "oneness" was a God-given directive to dwell in the one Body of Christ based on our faith in the savior, it was now the shunning of those who do not adhere to the tenants of the "Ministry of the Age" which came only from Lee and The Lord's Recovery..
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This is an excellent paragraph, showing how a little leaven can leaven the whole lump. There may be wheat flour there, finely ground, nutritious and tasty, but "a little something extra" gets mixed in that eventually ruins it all.
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Originally Posted by ACuriousFellow
Considering what has been discussed here regarding "love-bombing" and Witness Lee's obsession with "enjoyment" and The Recovery's abhorrence of all things "of the mind" and "of death," I would suspect that leaving for many is like when drug addicts go through withdrawal.
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Agree, the drug addiction analogy is apt, here. Think of heroin. It makes you feel good, but it's not good. It kills some, others survive, barely. Some eventually recover but they are now forever changed by the experience. The LRC members would scoff that their "glorious church life" is not good, but remember that when the addict is nodding off, they may think heroin is good, too. But it's not good, not by any objective measure.
Your current feeling may trick you, but what is going on isn't good. Look how often you've had to ignore your conscience, or the red flags indicating that something's wrong? For example, we listened passively to the curses on those who weren't meeting with us. But we all were "wrecked and ruined" for the Recovery, as the saying went, and our capacity to reason, to comprehend, or to sense, was impaired greatly. Like Paul wrote to Timothy (4:2), our conscience was seared as if by a hot iron. Like the drug addict who has no friends left, only enablers and opposers. Their world becomes greatly reduced, defined by one or two variables, on getting the drug and using it, and everything else is skewed as a result.