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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Oh, I forgot to add, that we do all the above, while taking care of a family, and working in a highly demanding professional job such as a lawyer or medical doctor, on top of being an elder and listening to everyone's problems and complaints. And unlike a pastor or priest, we don't get paid for "counselling" and we spend much of our Sunday in church-related things.
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Going to work is not the call. Everyone does that. The question is what is your purpose there.
As for counselling, what are you talking about. Your group doesn't even provide the counselling its own people need. Just admonitions to read more Bible or ministry, and go to more meetings.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Sorry it's not enough "religious work" for you (sarcasm again). I forgot that we must be out on the street feeding soup to homeless people to be truly doing what God asks, and all these things are not enough (sarcasm again).
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And when do you do this. Or when does your leadership encourage such things? In my years in the LRC, they mocked the very idea, and sent those in need to government agencies. Or they told the "saints" how they sent someone to some other church because "they do that kind of thing." Then he boasted to us how that was not what we were there for.
And that has been upheld ever since by the leadership.
No sarcasm needed. Your group refuses the real commands of Christ. They think the only efforts of value are about "preaching the gospel." I do not deny any command concerning that. But it is not the only command.
And when your whole focus is on your corporate spirituality, special standing, and gaining "good material" for the kingdom, you refuse the command of Christ in the name of superior, "unique" position with God. You can't be part of a group that is so opposed to the actual teachings of Christ and claim to be God's "unique" and "genuine" church to the exclusion of all others.