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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Thanks everyone, I feel better now. It seems life in a Brother's house was a mixed bag. Like anything else with people, you have the whole spectrum from committed to not committed. In the church it seemed to me, you were encouraged to be 'outward' (testifying, pray-reading, "releasing your spirit.") The church life was extroverted/for extroverts, so to speak. Forbid you were an introvert. You could be outwardly "Going on with the Lord" but live another life away from the church. This is not unique to the LC, anyone can do it in any church. One tough thing, when I Googled the names of brothers I knew 35 yrs ago, I saw one was on a state sex offender registry. I won't say where, and I won't say more, because I am still leery of being ID'd and/or hassled. I was in meetings for 6 yrs with this person, he was in my youth group, and gave the appearance of someone who cared for God. Very sad.. Lord God have mercy on his soul. That is all I can say in prayer for him. Too bad he wasn't helped 35 yrs ago.
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One notion that seemed to always go unsaid was that a corporate living environment like a brothers house or even the FTTA was a fix-all for people. It would cure personality problems, incompatibility with other people, etc, etc. Well, I do think that I learned how to deal with others better, but I didn't come out any better that I went in. In some ways I felt worse off. I knew how to live according to the LC standard, but I felt even more distanced from the real world.