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Originally Posted by aron
As a perhaps connected aside, related to the idea of us being pushed by whims, I notice how many of us got "caught" in the local churches of Lee under what might be called Shot-gun Wedding dynamics. One minute you are alone and adrift, and the next minute you are in the front row of a meeting yelling your lungs out. You get caught in the Group Pressure Dynamic to conform, and suddenly you are "in" (contrasted, perhaps, to the more cautious "do not lay hands quickly on anyone" in 1 Timothy 5:22).
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Right, aron. But can this happen without the group claiming to be superior to others? Even worse claiming to be the "unique" group.
One thing I appreciate about where I meet now is that the leaders regularly tell us that other groups are legitimate and we are not in competition, but in cooperation with them.