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Originally Posted by Unsure
I wonder... How much of this is just these young people deluding themselves? When I revisited the forums after the meeting, it scared me as to how innocenr and genuine the teachings of the LRC seem at first. I mean, seeing sharing like this is nothing new, but now I wonder...
I'm sure there's a field of abnormal psychology (or whatever covers groupthink like the stuff seen in the Recovery) that covers this stuff. About whether all these impassioned speeches are the overflow of the Spirit or just... Impassioned speeches.
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I struggle to figure out a way to characterize all the things that are spoken by young people/college students in meetings. It seems to me that for the "church kids" who haven't completely tuned out, they might feel like there is the need to "prove" themselves, or in other cases, it could simply be some kind of struggle to discover the esoteric things everyone else seems to be enjoying. Those kind of expectations can lead them to speak in a way that is uncharacteristic of who they are outside meetings.
What is worth pointing out is with a training such as this one titled "Age Turners", the topic is predetermined. I can almost guarantee that having consecrations during the last meeting was also predetermined. Thus, the college students were simply fulfilling a predetermined outcome. It made them feel warm and fuzzy getting to call themselves "age turners", so that was the benefit provided to attendees. To those running it, they get to tell everyone and say "look how successful our event was, look at what the Lord is doing."