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Going to work is not the call. Everyone does that. The question is what is your purpose there.
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Mankind's purpose was to work, ever since God told Adam to tend to the Garden of Eden.
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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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The bible, ministry, meetings, are not helpful in counselling?
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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.
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Depends what kind of counselling you are talking about. You think if someone needs a hospital we are going to try fix it ourselves with the Bible? We are not JW's.
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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.
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It's the main command, that's what it's called the great commission, not the "one of many other commissions" and as far as I can tell, was the main ministry of the church in the book of Acts and the apostle Paul's main calling.
In all these discussions with you I feel like I am arguing with a Roman Catholic and not an Evangelical and perhaps not even a Protestant.
What other things do you think Jesus called us to do in comparison to the great commission? Foot washing? Preserving the holy relics such as the toenail clippings of St Thomas? Pilgrimages to the holy land?
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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.
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What "command of Christ" are you talking about? I thought you believed in more than just one command.