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Originally Posted by Terry
Let's rephrase that to say:
"love the ministry" overturned "love your neigbor. If your neighbor wasn't "for the ministry" you could throw him/her under the bus.
The ministry became the conditional basis for loving. If you love the ministry, then we as lovers of the ministry love you. If you don't love the ministry, you are not deemed profitable to spend time with.
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The nail has been squarely hit on the head! My wife and I both felt this the moment I made a comment in one of the meetings about how I didn't quite agree with how the ministry viewed Psalms. Everyone looked up from their outlines. I was told I just didn't see what everyone else apparently "SAW" by having just read (once) the outline or life study or ministry book we were reading at the time. My "church life" since then has definitely lacked the shepherding LCers are so fond of. I think for the most part, at least among many of the brothers and sisters around my age, I've been written off, tolerated because I've been around a lot longer than them.