[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Steel on the Opening Post

I'm starting this thread in the hope that it helps us as a community come to better understand the matter of how we, as believers in Christ Jesus, follow something...
I don't follow a person, or a ministry, or anything else... I follow my mind... And it is the same for all of us. And because I've come to know this, over the years I have become more and more focused on what I allow my mind to receive, consider, and digest.

If possible, let's redirect back to the general theme of the opening post. There's been too much personal banter back and forth. Let's try our best to address the issue(s) at hand, and not the individual. If this is getting all too uninteresting, tedious and just plain ridiculous for me, who basically has no life outside this forum, then I know it has to be making the average viewer/lurker want to kick a hole in their computer screen, and delete this website address forever.

I have absolutely no doubt that Steel is being sincere when he says "I don't follow a person, or a ministry". Our friend Drake has stated something similar. The problem is, as I view it, is that the official, published position of the official leaders of the Local Church have plainly stated that LC members are, in fact, directed to follow a person and his ministry. Any plain and straight forward reading of The One Publication declaration leads any reasonable person to believe that this is what is expected, if not demanded from the producers of this declaration.

So, while there may be any number of views and understandings regarding "what exactly does a believer follow" among any number of current Local Church members, I'm not sure of the importance or even relevance to our discussions here. Unless of course some of the Blended Brothers would like to come and join us, and maybe clarify what they meant by many of the bold and ominous declarations in The One Publication.
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