Thank you for all these reports. It's really encouraging to hear. I wonder if churches in South America follow the same steps. Having been out of LSM system for several years now, I appreciate freedom in the Lord very much. To me the church life is so much about relationship now - relationship with the Lord and with the saints. The Lord calls us His friends. And He explains that as His friends we have right to know secrets of His heart. If the relationship with the Lord are established on friendship with Him, our relationship with each other should be based on the same thing. One of the most damaging things in LC system was renunciation of friendship. But without real friendship (not the one that is based on the loyalty to one man) the church life becomes impersonal.
Well, I think this thread is not the best place to develop this. Again, I am really happy for the churches in the Great Lakes area.
