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Originally Posted by awareness
My heart is really burdened for those growing up in the local church. I grew up indoctrinated in the Southern Baptist Church. I know how it can be. And the SBC isn't even close to the cult that the local church is. From what I've seen growing up in the LC really screws up kids.
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Let's not be too hard. First the responsibility falls on parents for raising their children and getting them prepared to be an adult. It is a travesty when pressures of the ministry dictates how parents should raise their children.
Second as much time as young people spend with their serving ones, the serving ones could either be used as a resource in getting young people prepared to be an adult, or they can stunt a young people getting prepared.
Since awareness did bring up the SBC, I will comment on the Southern Baptist Convention in it's comparison to the local churches. I know saints in the SBC. All their Christian experience is related to meeting with SBC churches just as children raised in the local churches don't know anything different than to meet in LSM churches. For each, it's their comfort zone.
To see what saints in community churches, Bible churches, etc are doing, you are not going to know.
They may be indoctrinated with falsehoods regarding non-LSM Christianity. I don't know. I can only speak what I was indoctrinated with growing up in the local churches. Not all was bad and not all was good.