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I want to offer a heartfelt response to this question, to unburden something the Lord Himself has given me to speak.

Untohim, I know what the intent of your ministry here is, and I know you see that your vision has not entirely been met here. I understand where your heart is, and I know that you are well aware of the mountain of resistance you face within the individuals still within the LRC to hearing anything people here - people who have left the LRC - have to say. You might say, it takes a genuine miracle of God to open the eyes and the stopped up ears of people still within the LRC. And that statement itself is not an exaggeration, it is in fact entirely accurate.

The problem here, I firmly believe, is that we are trying by reason to persuade men of the error of their ways. We are using human resources to try to overcome what is in reality a spiritual problem: That problem being deadend spiritual senses. The senses of these people have been dulled, have been put to sleep, and they have been taught to submit to a "spiritual authority" apart from the Holy Spirit. My friend, you are trying to wake the dead. Only God can do that.

Human words, even genuine testimonies, published novels and cold-hard rational facts and evidence won't accomplish what I know you truly desire: Revival. Fellowship. Cleansing. Freedom for those for whom you obviously love and care.

If you really want to grow this ministry - to make it the effective outreach you sense it must become - then you don't need to dress it up. You don't need to make it easier to navigate for the tech savvy. You need to open it up.

There is a story I'm sure most of us have heard - about how the bankers taught their employees to recognize counterfeit currency by locking them in a room for 10 days and letting them handle nothing but the genuine article. They taught their people to identify fakes not by letting them handle fakes, but by letting them handle the real deal so much that the fakes, when they did encounter them, were obvious.

People in the LRC think they are fat with "life" - but those of us who made it through know exactly what they've been eating - and they're starving. Untohim, they need to be fed. They think they've been feasting on the meat of the "high-peak gospel", but they need the pure milk of the Word. They need the REAL Gospel. They need to see Christ as He truly is, and when they do, they will listen. He will beckon His own, the real sheep will know His voice. Do you love Him, Untohim? Then feed His Sheep.

This Forum should not be just for members and ex-members. It should have within it a welcoming element of common fellowship to ALL members of the Body of Christ. It should reach out to and embrance Brothers and Sisters everywhere. Should it minister specifically to the people who are in and who have left the LRC? Certainly brother, that's your burden - the Lord Himself gave it to you. But it's focus ought to be on the Word of God, by the hearing of which all men may be saved.

If you open it up in such a way, then brothers and sisters in Christ who do not know anything about the LRC will become aware of it. That awareness is valuable, because it may be that the Lord will put it on the hearts of His people to pray for those caught within the LRC. It may be, that this awareness with innoculate the innocent who may be otherwise caught up in it, and it may be that those still within it will finally listen and understand that you are hear not to corrupt and defile them, but out of a genuine love for them. That you, that we, are nothing to fear - and that the Lord Jesus Christ is far bigger than they have ever been taught He was.

Pray about it, Untohim.


Peace brother,