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Criticism of others

My elder in church, who is also ex-LC, told me he noticed LCers, including ex-LC, have trouble shaking off a spirit of criticism. He said this because he noticed it in me, so that I could be free of it. Most of the Christians I meet today seem to have a much better time at seeing the good in people. However, people from LC backgrounds, myself included, will easily see the bad and struggle to see the good. We were trained for many years to criticize Christianity while overlooking our own hypocrisy. After leaving the LCs, we in turn took this subconsciously-tuned mindset and turned it against Lee and Nee.

Think about it, some of us have been out of the LCs for decades, yet we are still struggling to be free. Many of us may not have even settled into a new church because we see irreconcilable problems with all other congregations. I know it was hard for me as well, and it took forever to find a church both my wife and I were comfortable with. Maybe the only way to move on is to be free from this spirit of criticism inherited from the LCs.

Perhaps to get the worst of the LC fully out of our system we should learn to be merciful to others and try to see the good in them. I know I've failed many times in this regard, but perhaps once you realize the beam is in your eye, you can finally make an effort to take it out.