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Originally Posted by ZoeGrace
What I find interesting is that those things are normal, yet they have no idea what is happening to fellow Christians in other countries like Iran and the Middle East, India, etc.
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While I fully agree with you, the first problem is that they don't even have a correct view of the condition of their own spirituality, and of the needs immediately around them. What is the value of wringing their hands over the plight of Christians or others on the other side of the world when they have such a "who cares" attitude about the people that are literally their neighbors — even without the modern miracles of air flight, TV, cell phones, internet, etc., that brings what is far away into view wherever your are. If they despise even the Christians in their immediate vicinity, how can they (or we) think that appearing to have care for someone a few thousand miles away is of consequence?
I believe that our sphere of care and concern should start in the middle and move outward. This may not be written clearly anywhere, but if you refuse the beggar that knocks on your door, declaring it to not be a function of the church, then it probably doesn't matter what you do about the people far away. When you shun the things that real Christians have been commanded to do, it makes the whole of the LCM's isolation and claims of speciality into a mockery of righteousness and justice.
I just watched The Man in the Iron Mask again recently and the LCM position on just about everything reminds me of the decadent balls given by a King who gave the starving people of Paris rotten food so he could have luxury in the palace and send all the rest of the good food to the armies he had out fighting useless wars.
That is what I see as the whole that is the LCM system.