[OBW]

The only thing I can say is that it was a means to get out of a rut in which the blinders were on to see what they wanted us to see.

But it would seem that while I moved from an Arminian/Pentecostal group to a Calvinist group, I simply exchanged one set of blinders for another.

Would I have moved out of that original rut anyway? Possibly. I had recently become disenchanted with the scarcity of verses that actually supported the primary existence of the separate group (Pentecostalism).]

I have since become disenchanted with the complete lack of verses that actually supported the primary existence of the next group.

So . . . . was I blessed? Only clearly so when I had left both.

I know. I'm not really following the script for the thread. But sometimes I wonder if just because it happened it was a blessing, or just what God managed to do with it.

The Bible says he uses all things for our benefit. Doesn't say the things are for out benefit, or that he orchestrates them so that he can use them. Not saying he never does. But I am not sure that I buy the idea that just because I was ever there it was what God would have chosen. Just what he used. That is all the Bible really says about it.

And I am not sure that I can point to much that is really a "blessing" about ever being in the LRC.

Except meeting my wife. But that is still not something that I feel blessed about concerning the LCM. Just concerning my wife.