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Originally Posted by Ohio
In fact, no one leaving the Recovery is ever sent off with prayers of blessing, as is regularly done in most Christian churches.
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I can attest to that from the community church I meet with. Blessing the departing elder in his last meeting. Though he's no longer meeting there, this former elder is still greeted, received, and visited as a fellow member of the Body.
In the local churches, I have never been in a meeting where a brother or sister leaves the assembly with a prayer, with a blessing. Rather the expectation is the departing brother leaves as a gentleman. Without so much an opportunity by the assembly to bless them and with them well. Only exception being leaving one locality for another.