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Originally Posted by Matt
1. What do you propose we should keep from the "collective" / "corporate" experience of the LC? Let us see it and inspect it in the light of God's Word. Please be as specific as possible. This is a kind of challenge, but not because I am trying to cause you a problem. I really want to know what are the good things you are holding onto from the "collective" / "corporate" experience of the LC.
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Matt,
Are you kidding? Even djohnson has recalled in the past some positive things that we gained from the "collective"/"corporate" experience of the Local Church. This is the problem with your approach. You come in with elbows flying, insisting upon drawing a line in the sand, as if you are an Old Testament prophet who's gotten THE word from on high. Please re-consider.
I know my words may be futile here because you have the favor of the administration. But please consider beginning a whole new thread on this matter of idolatry. Please don't insist that all of the abuse in the Living Stream Church has to be summed up in the one word, "idolatry."
Some of us have slightly different point of views, and some of us have other aspects of abuse that we would like to discuss. If every time we come here to do so, we have to wade through volumes of lengthy posts, on the one subject of “idolatry,” I'm afraid we will just go away. Do we want a ghost town like exists over at Berean?
Sorry you don’t have time to write a book. But it’s not fair to drop it on our heads, one mega-post at a time. All here may not have in common the fact of paying for this forum. But most of us have in common that we have spent at least a decade or two, or three of our adult lives in the group being discussed. Please don’t drown us out on the abuse thread.
Roger