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Originally Posted by Terry
Localities I have met with in California and in Washington state, just to set a goal to increase by 5, though conservative is ambitious.
The nature of the recovery is in contrast to the western mind. Say a new brother has a burden to serve his community, that would be labeled as being "individualistic", "ambitious", etc. Though not bad words, but in the LC culture it's considered bad character traits to have.
Another may have questions about the logic surrounding their core doctrines of the ground and of deputy authority. May even point out how scripture contradicts it. The LC culture has a reaction to questions. Maybe for a new one, the first or second time there's patience. Eventually any form of questions will be discouraged.
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The church that I'm at never talks about numbers, but does talk about young girls in the sex trade, Mom's of young children, homeless, etc. I know that they do count the number attending every Sunday, but it's not published or used to drum up recruitment efforts.