[UntoHim]

QOTSA,

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I had to chuckle just a bit at the title of your opening post. Of course I wasn't chuckling when I read "I am a proud feminist and am really into social justice because of my LC years". It's very sad and a shame to the Lord that any Christian group or association could foster an atmosphere of unrighteousness or injustice, especially to women and children. I'm sure you've been through some of the numerous threads where the truth has come out about the abject unrighteousness and injustice perpetrated upon sisters/women in the "Ministry Office" of the Living Stream Ministry. No public apology has come forth. Though Witness Lee and his son Phillip are now dead, many of the men who promoted and exalted them are still in leadership positions in the movement.

I did want to make a quick comment about the wider issue of being "turned into a leftist". If the scriptures are any gauge, God is neither "left" nor "right". If the record of the Gospels are true and accurate, Jesus Christ was neither "left" nor "right". Maybe the jury is still out on the Holy Spirit, but since He was sent by the Father and speaks only what the Lord Jesus tells him to speak....I'll go out on a limb and say the same thing about Him.

Seriously though, I do find it a huge failure and shame to 21st century Christians that the church in general is not widely considered as a promoter and supporter of social justice. Please understand I am not referring to the most "political" of issues per se, but only to the raw injustices perpetrated upon the most vulnerable in our society. God's people should be the first to come to the aid of these people, and not be heaping condemnation upon them. The Lord Jesus spent at least as much time healing the sick, rebuking the hypocrites and loving on the scored and outcast as he did preaching and teaching.

I will leave you with Psalm 89:14:
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
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