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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
I'm wondering about the tone of many of the conversations on here. It just seems the main purpose is to point out flaws of other believers (when we truly all have "warts" - even though mine are so much smaller than yours - I'm joking of course). I know, I know - it's supposedly about helping others who are "trapped" in the LC or to help clarify what they went through, etc. But so much of it just seems to me to be made in a critical and judgmental spirit - which is NOT Christ (at least in my humble estimation). We are exhorted to let all we do, be done for building up in love. While intentions seem to be good, if the focus is not Christ, it's futile effort and merely entertainment.
(I wonder how posts might look if we asked the Lord specifically about what we are saying or how we are responding to someone, before we hit the enter button. I know I have been checked by the Anointing from saying certain things on here.)
So I ask - is there any room for love and forgiveness in us, for those in the LC who have been in error (and visa versa)? And where does that start? If we think that it should be others whom the Lord must work in first to repent, I don't know that love and forgiveness will ever happen. (e.g., do we really love those on here who are dogged supporters of all things WL & LC? Or do we say, "Sure I love them in Christ, but" . . . ?)
Does that make sense bro?
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Sure it makes sense bro, but ...
Numerous verses in the NT show us where the Apostles warned us of serious errors in the teaching and practices of the false brothers, false apostles, false teachers, false prophets, etc. These are not "flaws" in others. These are not simple matters, as in "everybody makes mistakes," or "nobody is perfect."
People got hurt, and you act as if it were nothing.
To address your chief point, there are numerous brothers and sisters who have contacted LSM for years in order to attempt reconciliation according to the scriptures (Matthew 18) and LSM refused to even acknowledge them.
The guidelines in the NT are simple,
are these false ones damaging the children of God? Yes, we should forgive them. We are commanded to forgive all who have hurt or offended us. Yet Rom 16.17-18 instructs us "
to watch and mark those who make divisions and causes of stumbling contrary to the teachings of the apostles, for such men serve their own appetites and by deceptive talks deceive the hearts of the simple."
Now why didn't Paul instruct me in Romans 16 to just forgive these ones from LSM who did exactly this to all the Midwest LC's? I watched LSM use deceptive speech to make divisions and causes of stumbling to many saints I knew personally over the years.
If you can convince me by the scripture and plain reason that I should just "forgive and forget" then I will.