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Originally Posted by Process
I think this is something that really effected me growing up, not the dating specifically, but the fear of letting children sin. Until we sin, its hard for us to grasp the need we have for a Savior. I think LC protected children too much from making mistakes. And used one persons mistakes to try to teach the entire flock the errors of failure rather than the grace of our Savior. My prayer for my young children is that they will make mistakes and lots of them while they're under the umbrella of my husband and I's protection. And that each time we can remind them that their is forgiveness because of the cross. I pray that these little slips while they're young will protect them from the experience of huge sin when they're older....but even then, God's grace is still sufficient! I'm not saying...sin cause there's forgiveness, but the fact is we are NOT PERFECT beings and I think the LC really hoped to make us that! Woudn't need Jesus except as a bud if we were!!
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Hi Process,
You are right on. As children of God we need the freedom to follow Him and make our own mistakes. I still remember saying to someone when I was beginning to wake up from my stupor (still deep in the LC), "I wish I could be free just to have a problem." I wondered why I
always had to come to the meeting praising and thanking the Lord like I was in "the victory" when many times I was just plain having a hard time. I needed to be able to be sad when I was sad, mad when I was mad, struggling when I was struggling, etc. without having to perform like a monkey on a chain.
If you have a houseful of other people living with you, as I did, you had to be in performance mode 24/7. Of course, I never made that standard. I think the real help came to those sisters that lived with us when my performance ability failed. I still remember one sister who had heard one of my husband and my not too quiet "discussions" through the wall of our house, saying to another sister who was dying to get married, "If you want to get cured of that, just come live with the Andersons!" Well, maybe we did some good after all.
Thankful Jane