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Originally Posted by Ohio
Anyone else find it interesting that the Concerned Brothers website never found John Myer's book worthy of posting?
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I think that the problem is that, on the whole, John's book puts too much of the LRC experience and doctrine in a less-than favorable light. Too many are not ready to simply say that the "ground" is worse than questionable, that Christianity is not the reprobate pariah we were taught, etc. They are not ready to face the notion that, at some level, everything is a tradition. Even a really good way of holding the Lord's Table. And intentionally shaking things up to avoid tradition is a tradition.
John wrote of what he saw and learned as he brought his flock along with him. While less caustic than this forum, it is still a little too abrupt and negative about the old LRC ways an personalities for the average member to take on all at once. Especially if they didn't already think that there were problems in the very core of their system.
And this is where I think the disconnect often occurs. Many know there are problems. But they don't really know what the problems are. They just know they exist. They presume that it is (as told to them by the party line) discontents causing trouble, ambitious people, reprobate outsiders, etc. The thought that they are holding meetings under the banner of a group whose spiritual conditions makes their existence like living in a condemned building is not what they think is going on.
So hitting them with it is just rejected. It takes something smaller and less affronting.
And while the Concerned Brothers have done that in critiquing the LSM, Myer has correctly pointed out that they have not turned the focus to the actual teachings that underpin the LRC in general — only the BBs and their attack dogs have been scrutinized. At this point, it is his book alone that seems to give a thorough critique of the whole thing. (Even Steve I's commentary is limited to the specific problems of the past and the outstanding denial of scriptural "due process" in his ouster.)