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Originally Posted by aron
Most church meetings I go to are either waaaay conservative or waaaaay liberal (and I consider myself a liberal!) so I just nod & smile and give them boilerplate. "Jesus is Lord! Amen!"
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I like Winston Churchill's comment here .... "
If you are young, and not a liberal, you don't have a heart. If you are old, and are not a conservative, you don't have a brain."
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Yes! This is exactly what I was getting at! Do we receive one another, based on our mutual love of God, or do we find differences and collapse into squabbles?
The ground of oneness doctrine did nothing that I can see to resolve this dilemma. It just became yet another wedge to drive christians apart.
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This is one of the Recovery's greatest contradictions.
Many years ago I was more idealistic and received "the ground of oneness" as a way to keep the oneness, and to be saved from all our differences. Eventually, I forsook "the ground of oneness" as one of the most divisive factors of all, because it was really based on whether we were "one with Anaheim" or not.