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Originally Posted by Drake
Now here is my point of view, my experience, and why the result may still seem the same to you but not to me.
When I came into the Lords Recovery forty years ago like most who came in around that time I was a Christian already. My testimony is recorded elsewhere in the vision thread. What I saw, what I experienced, the light and life, the care, the peace, etc. was way beyond anything I had experienced or saw up and till that point. In a word, I was gobsmacked. So I came in.
Shortly before I came in I had met Sal and some of the brothers involved in that first storm, then I came in, then the storm hit. I really liked those brothers, and when they left I had some serious soul searching with the Lord. How could they leave, what of their objections? I received a very clear speaking from the Lord to let the vision guide me, to keep pursuing life, light, peace and so I did.
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Brother Drake, it all sounds so good and spiritual. Allow the "vision" to guide you, and to pursue life, and light, and peace. I can't say that any of that is wrong, but some crucial things are missing. What has actually guided you are only those Biblical teachings regularly emphasized in the Recovery.
But the Bible also has emphases not often stressed in the Recovery, especially not during their frequent storms. These are the matters of love and righteousness. Jesus told us the entire law was summed up by love, first towards God, and then to our neighbor. I never saw the love of God, nor brotherly love, nor love to our enemies displayed during these storms. In fact, love in the Recovery was only available to those who swore allegiance to Brother Lee.
Just as crucial is God's righteousness. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of God's throne. Our very salvation is built upon the solid rock of God's righteousness. So how do you expect other serious Christians in the Recovery, who value the righteousness of God, to also sweep under the rug all the criminal activities witnessed at LSM offices, so that they can continue to pursue so-called "life and peace." Is not the matter of righteousness and stumbling the children of God more important than how you happen to feel?