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Originally Posted by Ohio
Perhaps out of that environment came the seed for the insatiable desire to "get church right." If we got "church right," then everybody else got it wrong, and they all need to come to us for that long-lost solution to all their woes. Made sense to me! I bought into the program hook, line, and sinker.
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Me too. It sounded so good. Remember the catch-phrase "the proper church life?' When WL would say he would hold the 'o' in proper for a moment. "The proooper church life." I must have heard that 100 times. But where does the Bible teach us to strive for the "proper church life?" It tells us to behave ourselves in the church, but that's different than a quest for perfection as an end in itself.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
Funny thing happened when I left the program. All the other Christians I have met care little for the need to "get church right." Apparently we got stuck in some "time warp" that we never could get out of. The Christian public, for the most part, had long since given up the notion of the "perfect" church. They have since decided that "Jesus was the way" to God, and there is basically "no perfect church." Duh!
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This is the lesson of history. Ironically, WL would talk about the "messy kitchen" being a consequence of getting anything done. Well, we're all in a big messy kitchen, but a lot is getting done!