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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Is their anywhere specific for helping those whove been in it through recovering? I've had to rummage around through the subforums for stories but the same difficulties and themes abound.
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I know what you mean. There is a tendency for us to turn most threads into one of a few pet topics not matter what the intended topic is. Even when the original topic remains, it is too often modified by the background noise.
And I am often among those making the noise.
As for a place for working through recovery from the "Recovery," I don't know specifically. There is virtually nowhere else that is covering these things at all. The old Berean forum (not the current one, but the archived original) has some things, but even that has limitations.
It is almost as if the real healing is from finding a new place and new brothers and sisters in Christ and let being with them in worship, study, prayer, etc., and even irrelevant activities that people do and wrestling with the bible without Lee-colored glasses and learn how the real Christian life is designed to be. It isn't about meetings, or meeting forms, or having one single piece of unleavened bread cooked from a special recipe then broken into pieces at the Table meeting, or high-sounding jargon and catch-phrases. It is about believing in Christ and living that life here on the earth in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.
And music style is not relevant. How many people speak in a meeting is not relevant. Whether the dirt your church is built upon is the right dirt. Or the name (heaven forbid!) is formatted correctly.
The tapes (and the worried feelings) are generally not supported by the Bible. They are only supported by the rhetoric that comes from the MOTA and his minions.