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Originally Posted by Freedom
I used to wonder why all these promises made in Lee's ministry never worked in the way claimed. I thought I was deficient. It's not until I looked around that I realized these things didn't work for anyone else either.
So I think what our friend Evangelical has labeled as "religious observation" isn't so bad after all. Millions upon millions of Christians are out there living a fulfilling life glorify God. So many in the LC are stuck in a rut of wondering what they're doing wrong.
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How very true! Decades of broken promises, false hopes, disappointments, and I and we always blamed myself and ourselves.
Yet, the standard answer to the endless query was: "
What were you expecting, did you want something other than Christ?"
No, that's exactly what I wanted. Christ!
Interestingly, about the time I was leaving the Recovery, I heard someone say, that if your church "
was not under the Lord's blessing, then perhaps it is under a curse."
Little extreme, but got me thinking. Eventually I concluded that our leaders had only reaped what they sowed. Decades of covered up unrighteousness and smear campaigns against the likes of our beloved brother John Ingalls can't be hidden from heavenly eyes.
How well James spoke to our condition ...
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But the tongue no man can tame; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
With it we bless our Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in God's likeness.
Out of the same [ministry] mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.
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