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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
This was certainly our case. I have heard many speak against the New Way, and the FTT. But out of all those posts never once did I read someone say that prior to the New Way the gospel work in the LRC was sizzling. That is because it wasn’t. The New Way was a reaction to the fact that our works were not hot. However, with all the money and effort put forth into the New Way it would not be fair to say that the LRC does not have works or is “cold”. If they were hot for the Lord that would be wonderful, if they were cold and offended, the Lord could deal with that. But instead they do enough work to give themselves cover, kind of like a fig leaf.
It is God’s sovereignty that we were in the LRC and we were put there to overcome. A promise is given to us to sit on the Lord’s throne. And He has given us a pattern, because everything that we need to overcome, He also has already overcome. So when we talk about the shortcomings of the LRC we are really talking about the things we need to overcome.
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ZNP, once again your conclusion casts our whole experience in a new light. You mention our LC experience under the sovereignty of God. Thank the Lord for this! The letter to Laodicea is indeed applicable for us. We are not a God-less people. I was led to the LC as an answer to prayer, but departed after much searching. Just because the Lord led me there does not mean it was all perfect, and just because I left does not mean it was all evil.
I did want to mention one LC that was thriving before the New Way, and that is where I migrated to in the early 80's. We were extremely blessed by the Lord with the freshness of the Spirit, the living word of God, numerous almost-miraculous answers to prayer, and the increase of believers and newly saved. Our condition by no means matched that of the rest of the LC's as described at the time by WL. Sadly it was our elders being instructed by TC to follow WL closely that brought the end of the blessing. We were distracted by ways and methods and endless changes. Our saints were scattered to various trainings. Our elders were re-assigned to other places. Our blessed condition was apparently an embarrassment which needed some "correction."