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Old 05-02-2015, 05:38 PM   #87
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Default Re: Does The Local Church Teach/Preach Another Gospel and Another Jesus?

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Originally Posted by OBW View Post
Overall, I agree. But even among the old folks where I am now, they are having quandaries over the lack of a Sunday evening service and the end of Wednesday services. Some still have things for kids on Wednesdays, plus choir practice and things like that (if they still have a choir). But it is mostly down to one large meeting a week. Plus small groups for some.

And I am not sure that this is a bad thing.
Fewer meetings is probably not bad at all. The impression that I get is right from the very start, those in the LC had the notion that they somehow had to demonstrate their zeal for the Lord by going above and beyond. Part of that meant spending a large amount of time in meetings. I've heard the implication that one meeting a week is for those in denominations. Once Lee got everyone convinced about how bad denominations were, all he had to say was that to attend one meeting a week was something of the denominations and that would result in LC members attending lots of meetings to prove their worthiness.

The way I see it is that part of the problem with Lee is that he though it was his mission to reinvent the wheel. There are reasons why most churches do things a certain way, and because Lee rejected all that, he never came to see that his methods weren't going to work so well. I think that most non-LC churches put serious consideration as to what kind of capacity members have in terms of the number of meetings per week. I'm sure that they also put thought into meeting length and time management, neither of which those in the LC seem to be particularly good at. Perhaps if Lee hadn't been so quick to reject and criticize, he could have learned what works and what doesn't. IMO, attending one meeting a week has nothing to do with how sincere a Christian is. It's a matter of it not being practice to go to a meeting every night of the week, and that's especially true for families with children.
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