Quote:
Originally Posted by Nell
This is the best example I can come up with for the existence of a "class system" in the LC. Not only are elders and their families a "privileged class" but people with money, or the potential to make money, are right in there too. The result is people like me looking longingly on the freedom of the "privileged class" and trying to figure out what class I was in, other than the lowest class of all..."single sister."
Nell
|
Hello Nell!
How can I say, but I disagree with you. I do think there are preferences that come across as priveleges. One way to discard the concept of priveleges in the local churches is not care about what other people think. Once there's concern about what the elders, the sisters, or the brothers think, is there an appearance of the priveleged and the unpriveleged.
There defintely are preferences.
If you have the right personality or part of the right circle, you'll recieve preference over other brothers and sisters. It's more about how one is recieved or percieved, than about what one can or cannot do.
When I lived in a brother's house, there was another brother who shared my appreciation of baseball. We'd go to baseball games. I never gave it a thought if it bothered elders, deacons, serving ones, etc.
Terry