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Originally Posted by NeitherFirstnorLast
I apologize if I have offended you, ZNP. I do welcome your input, I only ask that you consider how you testify to what you do. You are witness to the time, and your input is valuable...
Regarding your charge of SCP being a "prophet for hire" - can you substantiate this claim?
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I can share my experience. I don't have any inclination to do a full on study as I feel this is little more than a footnote in history.
My experience is clearly quite different from most that post on this forum. During my freshman year I was very happy and very involved in college and had nothing to do with any Christian groups on the campus. During that time a brother from the LRC would visit with me and share the gospel. He usually came by Sunday night after the Lord's table, a time where everyone was ready to focus on getting work done for class the next day and hence a very good time to find me. When I did come into the church I felt that the school was very fleshly and the battle wasn't between the LRC and Christianity, or the LRC and the other Christians on campus. I felt the battle was between the Christians on campus and the atheists. During my freshman year one of my roommates had crowed about how this school was essentially "an atheist" school with virtually no Christian presence, which was unusual for Texas.
During my sophomore year I was essentially the only brother on campus from the LRC, though others visited regularly. I was excited to be a Christian and went to meetings of Christians on campus which were not at all affiliated with the LRC because you couldn't hold meetings unless you were on campus and except for me the LRC wasn't. As a result I knew the brothers and sisters in Inter Varsity and Campus Crusade. (I thought they didn't know me since I had changed a lot and had run in different circles, but during my senior year one brother told me "we knew who you were and we gave God the glory"). There was one brother in that group that I really admired. He was a great brother, he was working a job to put himself through school, and he was a top student.
By my senior year the entire atmosphere on campus had completely changed. The gospel was the focus of the entire campus. Every year the school has a special issue on April Fool's and that issue dealt with the gospel in every article, and the major articles were clearly about us, the ones from the LRC. I can give you numerous testimonies about how everyone on that campus knew who we were, but let me focus on this book, the God Men, instead.
We had a very prevailing gospel that year, virtually every day we were bringing someone on that campus to the Lord. We would preach and pray with them during lunch. Our table was open to all, so we often fellowshipped with other Christians on campus. We knew them and were all very cordial with one another. Then we learned that one person we had prayed with had been approached by some Christians on campus later and using this book they were convinced not to talk with us. We knew this because one of the brothers in the room at the time came and told us. That didn't bother me, we were praying with so many new ones that we couldn't take care of them all. If the brother who had shared this had then taken this new one under their wing and shepherded them I wouldn't have minded. We then went and asked this brother if this was true and he told us it wasn't. This is the same brother that I had admired so much a couple years earlier and had been an example to me. The other brothers were outraged, "he lied" and "we have to expose him", etc. I couldn't bear to do this. I wasn't going to make up a story like WL did, but I also wasn't going to expose him. I told them to forget it. They were stunned, I had never turned down a fight during my four years on that campus. My feeling was that this was a shame. We should have been working together, we should have been thrilled that what was a completely atheistic school less than four years ago was now a school where everyone was confronted with the gospel. But instead this wonderful brother, very solid character is reduced to poisoning new converts and then lying about it. Now you tell me if that is the testimony of someone who is under a genuine ministry? In that meeting he basically handed the new one a copy of the God Men and said "here, read this". What kind of gospel is that?