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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
The statement is a simplification pointing out that being an organization without the prerequisite life element is not sufficient. Hence, coming into a church and wanting to adjust the organization to better mimic practices in a corporation may not necessarily be profitable. Without a doubt it is too glib to stand on its own.
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Anyone who believes that all the Church needs is some organizational restucturing to operate better has no spiritual sense. How many of these type people really exist? Probably quite few.
Anyone who believes that sophisticated organizational techniques are necessarily a bad thing for the Church is probably hyper-spiritual. You see these people a lot.
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History has also born out that corporations act as psychopaths and are definitely not a good analog for the church. In addition, any condemnation of the "system" of Christianity by WL works equally well to condemn the system he established with the LSM run churches. Also, although it is fair to say that WL's condemnation of Christianity was overblown and hypocritical, it doesn't change the fact that many of the failings of Christianity are just that, failings.
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There are failings everywhere, and as the article says, the Church endures.
My point was that this general longing and insistence on this church ideal, which for some is a legacy mindset left over from their LRC experience (and which regularly makes its appearance on this board) is probably windmill chasing and may even be snobbery.
Further, this attitude feeds into leaning toward the "solution" of creating one's special "true" church, which does not have the failings of general Christianity. This error has happened again and again in church history, including the LRC, big time