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Originally Posted by Matt
Nell,
Were you consecrating yourself to Christ? Or were you consecrating yourself to Christ and the church? I think my understanding is correct that you and many others were consecrating themselves to the "vision" of Christ and the church.
This is what I have thought about a lot. I think that many were consecrating themselves to Christ plus something. I'm very interested in digging down on the plus something because I think it is the thing that held many in the system of the LC long after it was corrupted.
Matt
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Just as Nell said, it was "Christ and the church." Were we ever off.
I'm not sure that this sort of consecration thing on its own held us in the LC system. But when you coupled that onto the "God's best," the ground of the church with the "blessing of life forevermore," the highest ministry, etc., train, and put it up against a backdrop of poor pitiful degraded Whore of Babylon Christianity which meant there was nowhere else to go but to the world, you have a stranglehold on many. If the best is this bad, where else do we go?