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Originally Posted by awareness
Okay, we can add to the LC lexicon "churching."
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Does/did anyone actually say "churching"? I never heard that in my years there. I left near the time that zeek did (in my case 1987). If they did, it is an excellent example of saying things in a peculiar way so that they forced themselves apart from all other Christians.
And while I am on this word, someone said something in some thread a few days back that has been bugging me. I can't find it so I can't respond in the right place. If someone can point me to it, I will gladly take this to that thread. But they said that the people of the LRC (not the teachings and the leadership, but the people) are so "Christ-centered" in a way that they seemed to think no one else was. I may have misread it, but that was the impression I got.
While I agree that there is a lot of talk about Christ and our love for Christ, was it really so Christ centered? Was there not always an "and" in there and the "and" was the church? Not saying that the church is not real and even important. But it is not the center. And if your center is a conjoined center, and we now conclude that this additional aspect of the center is less than healthy (in terms of what the LRC says the church is) then was the true Christ as much the center of their life and living as they thought? If so much of their Christ is understood and appreciated in juxtaposition to something as erroneous and harboring of evil as the church they claim to be so real and wonderful, is the reality of Christ really what we think (thought it is (was)?
(Or thought it is/was)