[NeitherFirstnorLast]

I am troubled today, because my eldest daughter (age 11) lost a friend.

Friday night is "Home Meeting" night, and my children have enjoyed going because there are many other children there. I have not chosen to attend in some time, but my wife has still gone some lately. Tonight my daughter found out they were no longer invited. Tonight she discovered that her friends aren't allowed to associate with her anymore because we no longer meet with the LSM church. Her friends were told we go to a "Catholic church in Three Hills now", which we do not (not that it matters, really). My daughter told her friend that we don't, and "what does it matter where we go? We're Christians, what does it matter if we don't want Witness Lee as our divine deputy - we can still be friends!" Her friend (also age 11) agreed, but her parents don't feel the same way.

Praise the Lord, it is completely over at last. We are delivered whole from a religious system that lost its way if ever it had found it. How sad though, that children would be cast aside and friendships destroyed over such things as this.

Matthew 18:5-6 "And whoso shall receive one such little child in My name receiveth Me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. "

Lord, have mercy on them. Open their eyes to the full knowledge of the truth. Lord, forgive them - for they know not what they do.

In Christ,

NeitherFirstnorLast