[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by caveman

For the record: I have no interest in WL, LC, or BB bashing. I bless the Lord for the privilege of growing up and giving my best years whole-heartedly to be receive what these people gained of Christ, and serve together with them. Some of you here, I feel, have some issues with bitterness that you would do well to seek help dealing with. God forbid that He eventually has to judge you with the same strictness and enthusiasm with which some of you here are casting stones. I have no interest in participating in that or providing ammunition for those who are just looking for rocks to throw rather than to build something with.
If there have been moral or ethical wrongdoings that set some of you off, I can't speak to that, as I never noticed such things in greater frequency or severity than are common to any institution, sacred or secular. I'm just talking about the personal offenses and reactionary cynicism that rise up when a person finds out they don't fit in to something they had hoped to be a part of at some point. I still struggle with disappointment that there seems to be no place for me among what those dear folks are doing. But I'm dealing with it, and staying positive is part of how that is best done.

Welcome to the forum caveman

Thanks for your insightful post. Don't know how old you are, but many (most) of the frequent posters here are "middle aged" refugees who were in "the glorious churchlife" back in the 1970s. Some of us left the Local Church 20 years ago or even more. Some just recently. We do have a few scattered current LC members. Anyway, much of the "perspective" you see in the postings here come from us surly old curmudgeons. Most of us are very much aware of our rock-throwing tendencies, and we try to stay on the positive side, but much of the time our willing spirit is overcome by our old, weak flesh. Many of us are living proof that calling on the Lord, pray-reading and going to 5 or 6 meetings a week do not a transformed person make. So when you catch us picking up stones, just do what the Lord Jesus did when those people were going to stone the adulteress and say "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone" and we'll probably put our tail between our legs and walk away.

Seriously, this forum is in need of some new blood and some fresh air - from BOTH sides of the fence. I have been trying my best to see how we can further promote this forum and maybe you can help us.

Your brother who is unto Him.