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Originally Posted by Hope
Hello brother,
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Somehow in the reporting about burnings all I hear on the forums is about mothers burning pictures of their children etc. I only know of two who did so and they both later regreted and said they were carried away. (But I would think there probably were others.) There was a lot of internal pressure felt by some to be at the forefront of being all out for the Lord. I sometimes heard the defense for foolish behavior, "You can never be too much for the Lord."
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Hope
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I had just started meeting with the church in Toronto when the burnings were happening. The elders in Toronto did not, to my recollection, minister anything to temper the situation. As a result, in Toronto at least, sorry to say, there were 'precious' things being burned such as baby pictures, wedding pictures, TVs. There was the definite concept of this and I know that later some regretted what they had burned.
I burned a piece of carpentry I had made a couple of years earlier. It was large and could not be a hidden thing so there was the element of show-boating attached to doing it. I overheard an elder explain to another one present at the burning that this must be to do with my wanting to deal with my pride.
Some saints also wrote notes about what they wanted the Lord to deal with and burned them. I did but have no recollection as to what my note said.
This was followed a year or two later with another wind - that of re-baptism as a way of re-consecrating ourselves to the Lord.
Steve