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Originally Posted by Terry
In this over "spiritualize" of everything, many have forgotten to receive according as God has received us. Instead in this over spiritualize, receiving fellow Christians is according to the ministry.
One elder has compared the recovery to the Marines...it's not for everyone. If that's the concept, how difficult is it to receive one another where they're at?
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I think what happens is that when younger brothers and sisters see their leadership setting an example of abnormal spirituality, they begin to see it as normal. It then becomes hard to accept people who don't hold that same standard or level of "spirituality".
A few years ago I was at Disneyland with a friend. My friend, who attends a non-LC church happened to run into one of the pastors from his church there. When this happened, it made me consider, I would be hard-pressed to run into an LC elder at Disneyland. Elders who would even think of going would be few and far between. It's not that anyone in the LC is opposed to going to Disneyland, it's just a matter of it not meeting the level of pseudo-spirituality that they hold themselves to.