[onthefence]

Hi there,

Long time lurker, first time original post.

I've recently decided to distance myself from the LC, and I am blessed to have found another church community that holds the same or similar faith as mine. At least the church and pastor hold open forum discussions every 4 months, allowing us to question practices of the "church" and Christianity. This is a very new thing to me, as many of you can agree with, we were not given much opportunity to ask questions or question authority, especially if you were a church kid, just as I was in the LC.

My main question at the moment (I have a million). A friend of mine at my new church was at a recent event where free Bibles were being handed out. Knowing my suspicions, I asked to see this Bible. It was a Recovery Version Bible, the typical LSM ones. By now, some people in my new church know my background and experience in high high-control/ culty church. Therefore, she is a bit worried about what to do with the Bible.

My personal opinion is that every bible is an opportunity to bring a nonbeliever to Christ and salvation. But I don't agree with the practices of WL footnotes that fill pages and pages of this Bible, and only supplying someone with the NT is restricting a person from discovering all the riches in the Bible.

I would love to hear everyone's opinion on the use of the LSM NT Bibles and what my friend should do with her copies.
(If you suggest burning them, that is your opinion, which is not for me to judge, but I will not be doing that.)

Looking forward to future conversations.
-Onthefence