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Originally Posted by Indiana
There was something going on in the sixties in the U. S. - flower children, assassinations, civil rights riots, anti-Viet Nam War demonstrations - and a move of Spirit that was sweeping the country in the middle of an atmosphere of upheaval. In a paper that young people put out from Los Angeles in 1972, that tumultuous time period is captured, as well as what was taking place spiritually in a restless and seeking generation of young people.
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This is where I get the most frustrated with your message and participation. It is canned and remote. You aren't engaged in it.
You make the statements, but they don't really say anything. "There was something going on . . . ." It doesn't matter. There is always something going on.
And there is always a move of the Spirit. We've just been conditioned to believe that it has to look like a revival of some sort to believe that the Spirit is moving. And I'm not just talking about the LRC.
But the "paper that young people put out" tells me nothing. You say it captured something, but it is not described. What is the purpose of speaking about a paper that "captures" something then not tell us anything about what it captures? Is it impossible to distill? If so, then it is pointless to mention it unless you can point to it or quote from it.
The link you do provide is to a clearly LRC-worldview writing seeking to describe the events of the times in terms of the rise of the "Local Churches." If this is the paper you are referring to, then you should identify your link as pointing to it.
And if it is, then it is not just some paper put out by young people in Los Angeles. It is a paper put out by the LRC for the purpose of associating itself with the seeking of the various youth movements as a whole to gain some of those "seekers." I'm not saying that doing that is insidious or evil. But it is now being described in such a removed position that it is trying to be a disinterested reporting telling what they are seeing without being involved.
But you are very involved. And so were they. They were not just some young people. They were the LRC's young people. That assumes that it was not actually written by someone not entirely so young to go out under the banner of "young people."
Your rhetoric is losing its value. You give snippets and link to other sites. (BTW, I thought there was at least some desire for this to not be an advertisement for other "ministries.") They do not appear to be written from your viewpoint, but rather as a cut-and-paste from cold, 3rd-person, sanitized writings of some AP reporter on the religion desk.
I don't agree with many of your positions concerning how good the LRC ever was or could be. But you need to display some passion about it if you want to be taken seriously. These pieces seem to be more of a Google search for topic-of-the-moment and the first search result is displayed. Or, more limitedly, one of a series of possible selections in an old juke box. The song won't speed up or slow down. It won't break into a rock version of a country song or a bluesy rendition of a pop favorite. If there is a scratch in the record, you are stuck with it.
And whatever you do, please, mister please, don't play B-17.