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Originally Posted by HERn
I think another thing I'm going to keep is the notion that every member of the body of Christ has a contribution to make towards the benefit, growth and comfort of all. When I was down in the LC trenches I really believed this and I still do. This despite the fact that for MANY of the brothers I knew in the LCs fellowship and help only went one way...from them to me. For these brothers there was a definite hierarchy that governed fellowship or help...it could only go from someone more absolute or constituted towards those who were less. So it essentially worked like this; Barber to Nee to Lee to the top blendeds to the not-so-blended coworkers to the elders and full-timers to the non-elder leading ones to the responsible ones to the serving ones then to the various small potatoes (and even among them I sometimes observed a hierarchy of length of time in the recovery or age or who brought you in or who your parents were or if you went to the full-time training). The reason this thought came to mind was because in our men's SS class there are some very young men that don't say much and I've thought maybe we loquacious oldies should stop at three comments so the younger ones can contribute. I'm throwing out the LC practice that suggests fellowship only flows downhill.
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Such is our sinful self. "The rulers of the Gentiles Lord it over them but it shall not be so among you." Sadly it is too often so among us.