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Originally Posted by Ohio
The continued judgments on all of christianity damaged many. Pride creeps in so subtlely. Somehow the young people feel "OK," just because all other Christians are so bad. And for those who couldn't or wouldn't survive in the LC, all other avenues were closed. The teachings of LSM purposely prevented many young Christians from seeking fellowship with "outsiders."
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Ohio, is it teachings or is it attitudes towards non-recovery Christianity? The attitude as a young brother was Christianity was superficial. The concept was if a Christian was serious about the Lord, they were in the local churches. With a non-recovery Christian, the concept was they only went to service as a matter of tradition and what teachings non-Recovery Christians recieved paled in comparison to the recovery.
There was a brother several years older than I. Once he went off to school at USC, I never saw him again. Years later after I had finished my college education and reentered the local churches in metro-Seattle, I wondered what happened to this brother. I'd never see him at the SoCal conferences. One year I was able to locate this brother. His testimony to me was in Christianity he found as many Christians serious for the Lord as he grew up knowing in the local churches.
So in this way labeling non-Recovery Christianity as "poor poor Christianity" in a way does create a barrier in fellowship.
Terry