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Originally Posted by KSA
Another thing is that we do not try to attract people to our fellowship. When the Lord allows us to meet with other hungry believers, our main concern is that they would learn to hear from the Lord. So we have regular fellowship with believers from other churches without trying to pull them into our fellowship. Actually we do not see church as some kind of formal meetings anymore. We do church everywhere - in cafes, in gyms, in homes (and meal is a big part in our church life  ). |
I think this is very important, and is a big contrast to the LSM practice of hard-core recruitment, which a number of religious groups practice as well. This violates several key spiritual principles.
First, is to rely on the Lord. In the 'heavy recruiting' groups, you see the hands of man all over the process. God is there, probably, but as a secondary player. The works of man, the psychological strategies, the advertising campaigns, the marketing techniques, the pressure to 'produce' fruit, the incessant rallies to whip the troops into a 'selling' frenzy... I saw enough to realize what was going on.
Second, and more important to me, there are two kingdoms: the kingdom within and the kingdom without. When you impose your will on others, even if you dress it as "God's move", you violate both kingdoms. This is such an interesting principle to me that I started a thread on the subject on the "All over the board" board. There are some ideas there I am working on and want to share but I don't want to derail KSA's fellowship here. Peace and thanks for letting me share.