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Indiana · 11-10-2008, 01:35 AM

I have quoted Hope in the 2 paragraphs below. They are striking to me. Later Hope, you wrote about a solution to your quandary; that is, you have decided to write a Book of Remembrance. This, I expect to be exceedingly sweet and also honorable to the Lord and to many saints, including certain leaders. Your second paragraph below, I believe, is a foretaste of such a record.

Don shares,

"I understand that the LSM is putting out their version of history now. They will not say much at all about any blessing the churches and saints knew except to relate it to something of WL’s ministry. I am in a bit of a quandary. I have been advised to move forward and cover the history from a high level rather then get into too much detail regarding the many times of the rich experience of our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ. I agree with this and now will concentrate on my original plan to tell the story from the perspective of the leadership, their good points and positive contributions and their errors in truth and practice and failures in character and virtue.

"But I am very concerned that what we learned of Christ not be lost in all the commotion of the leadership problems. Eph 4:20-21, But ye did not so learn Christ; if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: For several years our experience was just what is referred to in the above passage. We heard Him almost daily and in nearly every meeting. In my home where my family and several single brothers lived, oh how rich was our daily living. We all looked forward to the evening meals and sweet fellowship. My children loved the brothers and waited excitedly for their arrival each afternoon. The brothers were constantly bringing friends, classmates and co-workers over for meals and fellowship. Many young unbelievers found Christ at my table or in my living room. We all laughed and cried and rejoiced together and there was real love among us. Perhaps I should add an appendix after the main account is finished regarding what the church life was like in pre LSM days."

11-10-2008, 01:35 AM	#16
Indiana Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 718	Re: From Quandary to a Book of Remembrance I have quoted Hope in the 2 paragraphs below. They are striking to me. Later Hope, you wrote about a solution to your quandary; that is, you have decided to write a Book of Remembrance. This, I expect to be exceedingly sweet and also honorable to the Lord and to many saints, including certain leaders. Your second paragraph below, I believe, is a foretaste of such a record. Don shares, "I understand that the LSM is putting out their version of history now. They will not say much at all about any blessing the churches and saints knew except to relate it to something of WL’s ministry. I am in a bit of a quandary. I have been advised to move forward and cover the history from a high level rather then get into too much detail regarding the many times of the rich experience of our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ. I agree with this and now will concentrate on my original plan to tell the story from the perspective of the leadership, their good points and positive contributions and their errors in truth and practice and failures in character and virtue. "But I am very concerned that what we learned of Christ not be lost in all the commotion of the leadership problems. Eph 4:20-21, But ye did not so learn Christ; if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: For several years our experience was just what is referred to in the above passage. We heard Him almost daily and in nearly every meeting. In my home where my family and several single brothers lived, oh how rich was our daily living. We all looked forward to the evening meals and sweet fellowship. My children loved the brothers and waited excitedly for their arrival each afternoon. The brothers were constantly bringing friends, classmates and co-workers over for meals and fellowship. Many young unbelievers found Christ at my table or in my living room. We all laughed and cried and rejoiced together and there was real love among us. Perhaps I should add an appendix after the main account is finished regarding what the church life was like in pre LSM days." Last edited by Indiana; 11-10-2008 at 03:21 AM.