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Originally Posted by Igzy
..."Christ and the Church" is a riveting heavenly ideal, and we all could use a heavenly ideal from time to time. But that slogan simply cannot do the heavy, practical lifting of day-to-day dealings with the church, the world and life in general. Focusing entirely on the heavenly did not produce the ideal that the LC hoped it would. It just produced a group where human needs get marginalized. Real pastors of real churches understand that.
We need to approach heavenly ideals with some trepidation. They need to prove themselves in the reality of practical daily life.
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"Focusing entirely on the heavenly [ideal]...just produced a group where needs get marginalized." There is much truth, on the negative side, in what Igzy has said. This is what spawned my first writing to elders, in search of "real pastors" of "real churches" who understand there is
heavy lifting involved to bring in the
heavenly ideal.