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Originally Posted by Igzy
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
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I came to the conclusion many years ago that the church is a hospital. A normal church will have fleshly and sinful members as well as gospel contacts who haven't received the Lord.
But how would anyone who identifies the failings of Christianity not be tarred with this same brush? If you can say that wanting to have an "ideal" church life is snobbery why can't others use that same judgement on you for the criticisms you make of WL and the LRC?
To me the answer to this dilemma is simple, you are very strict in judging yourself and very general to others. You are very strict in pointing out your own failings and very general in discussing others. This doesn't mean you make excuses for sins (PL, etc.) or blatantly unscriptural actions (quarantine of TC. lawsuits, etc). But someone longing for the "ideal" church life depicted in the NT is not something I feel is for me to judge.