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This brings to light a major LRC error: Over-conditioning members with LRC interpretations without letting the members have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether those things make sense or not. In other words, lack of freedom to make up one's own mind. That's one of the best ways to replace the leading of the Spirit with man's indoctrination, and obviously one the LRC majors in.
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That is very true. But no less true in any other Christian denomination, if one doesn’t take care. I’ve had Protestants tell me to read the Bible for myself concerning an issue. Not realizing until too late that the view I came to in relation to the passage in question wasn’t what they intended when they said it. I have received a lot of human judgments over that.
Denominationalism exists because certain people want to do your thinking for you. Want to do Jesus’ thinking for him. We need to listen to one source, and that source is not us or anyone like us. Too many trumpets sounding in Christianity doesn’t make for normal living. Any more than it does in the secular realm.
So we are in agreement on this issue. Which should be helpful to Movingon.
But not just in relation to the Recovery. In relation to all Christian denominations. It will do no good to come out of the Recovery and then fall into the same trap in a different Christian denomination. Listen to God and Jesus Christ. Walk according to the Spirit so that one can listen effectively. The human spirit alone and the human mind alone doesn’t hear so good. That connection to the Holy Spirit is necessary for clarity. It is a choice, it takes conscious effort, to put one’s mind in the direction of the Spirit, to think on the things of the Spirit instead of the flesh. Be careful of the preaching of man. Don’t accept what God does not. There is only one Shepherd that leads to grass and is the grass. The most that Christian shepherds can do is what we are doing here at this moment. Lead to the Great Shepherd and to the grass that is Jesus Christ himself.
With Countmeworthy I say, do everything to the glory of God, making sure it is for his glory and not someone else’s or one’s own. Follow Jesus Christ and do what he tells you to do. Have fun with the realization that he is walking by your side. That will help keep you from having the wrong kind of fun. What would Jesus do? Why not just ask him? Surely if there’s any reality at all to what we’re saying, he will answer you.
MacDuff