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Originally Posted by OBW
But if the group that was being warned against had been the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Mormons, you would have hoped they would not talk with those heretics the next day and would never have categorized it as "poison."
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I do not object that they "warn" new believers about the LRC since they are "nervous", "unsure", etc. What offended me was that they didn't shepherd this one. You go to someone who has just prayed and received the Lord and tell them that group cannot be trusted, don't talk to them. OK, but why aren't you going to minister to this one? Is this your ministry, go around after we pray with new ones and poison them so they don't want to ever talk to any Christians? If the LRC did this we would castigate them. Likewise I already shared an experience where one of my new ones was going to the Moonies meeting so I went with him. This one continued to meet with us for years. My position is not hypocritical, I don't expect them to do anything more than I did.
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Originally Posted by OBW
I'm not equating the LRC to the JWs or Mormons.
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Of course you are. You have used my feeling that the JW's are heretical and compared it with this brothers feelings that the LRC is heretical. In your analogy you are likening the LRC to the JWs and Mormons. However, this statement here shows you are too mealy mouthed to say it straight.
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Originally Posted by OBW
But there are many who believe that the LRC is quite heretical in some ways, and "cultish" in others, although within the general bounds of Christianity.
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Well it is nice to know that you have been reading the thread "Is Witness Lee a False Prophet?" seeing as you have posted so often there.
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Originally Posted by OBW
Should their warnings be insisted to be "poison" just because we don't think that badly about the LRC?
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To say you "poisoned" someone means that you killed them spiritually. If I have a new one who comes to me for fellowship about some marginal group that I am familiar with or that I am not. I would have fellowship with them, as I have done many times. And the next day the fellowship would still be open. That is a warning, that is fellowship. If the next day this new one decides "I don't want to have anything more to do with Christians, period", then that is poisoning, not warning, not fellowship.