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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
Oh...and Aaron is Alan on the other forum btw.
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cmw,
I like changing my names as I make the "jump" in cyberspace. It's a Star Trek thing.
I think TimeLord is an excellent writer. Very well put together for "a college kid". But I didn't have anything to say to him. He'll do fine without my input.
He said I was "negatively obsessed"; which might have a grain of truth, so I took it as an admonition from the Lord. Any posters on a site about Lee & the Local Churches might be seen to be so tinged with "negativity".
I have tried to be positive. Both my experiences in the Local Churches and my subsequent experiences of Christ have been very positive to me. I disagree with some of their doctrines & practices, of course, but I guess we all are different in some ways. But anyway, I took Timelord's comments as "from the Lord"; it's the safe thing to do I guess. I'm trying not to become negative.
I would like to think that I am positively obsessed. My role model in this is the Samaritan woman in John chapter 4. She ran around to everyone, saying, "Come and see! This man told me everything I have done -- is this not the Christ?"
I feel positively "focused" on a couple of things which I've uncovered in the last couple of years, and which I try to share with everyone. The first is about the apostle John, what he "saw" there on the island of Patmos. To me it opens the whole NT, and makes sense of subsequent christian history. The Revelation of John became the lens for me to view events in the OT, in the Gospels and Acts and Epistles. And suddenly everything "made sense" to me. I tried to share the gist of this idea. But I don't expect Timelord or anyone to read my 400+ posts and make sense of the story!!
The second thing I've seen, and I uncovered it on this forum, is the idea of the "ekklesia" being translated as what we in the local churches would call a "meeting". The ekklesia is the assembly, the gathering together of the called-out ones. Any 2 or 3 gathered in the Lord's name, blessed with His presence, is qualified as an "ekklesia". I can guarantee you this changed my spiritual life. When meeting with others, instead of trying to recruit them to some group, I just have "ekklesia" with them. We gather and thank and praise the Lord; we bless and extol the virtues of the One who was and is and is coming; we encourage and strengthen each other's faith. And we can "feel" God's building work in us. Amazing.
Anyway I appreciated Timelord's comments immensely but didn't have the capacity to add something of value. Glad you were able to connect.
Peace & grace, as always. I always love your judicious use of CAPITAL letters. I get a charge every time I read your posts.