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Originally Posted by YP0534
I'll take heat for this one too, probably, but it really is just an honest question:
How come none of the LC people ever realize the horrible degradation of so-called "children's meetings"?
I got in a lot of trouble right there at the end for noticing and commenting that they were nothing more than fairly typical Protestant Sunday School classes.
But it was really a problem because I saw the "church kids" reaching a certain age suddenly required to "function in the big meetings" after having done coloring pages all their life. These dear saints didn't even seem to be able to perceive the damage this ingrained practice was doing to their very own children.
Please, someone, help me understand how the Lord's words about millstones around the neck and normal human affection could BOTH be thrown under the LC bus?
I just couldn't ever understand this one at all.
I saw a video tape running of a puppet show while on a tour of the LSM facilities one time and I couldn't even believe it, really.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about here?
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I had the same realization at some point along the way. The only families that were able to overcome this degradation were the ones where the children functioned in the home. To them, 'church' and 'family' were not two different things. But for most, Sunday 'church' and Monday through Saturday 'home life' were too disconnected, and, though most got saved, when they got the choice most of the children got out.
The hardest thing I ever saw in the church life was children 'performing' like trained monkeys, merely to assuage the adults' egos. It broke my heart.