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Originally Posted by Ohio
If the wordsmiths at LSM had polished up the rhetoric here, you will get the same flaming bombast which has filled their podiums and websites for decades related to former LC workers such as Max Rapoport, John Ingalls, Titus Chu, Nigel Tomes, etc. Their Laodicean attitudes prevent any critique whatsoever and prevent any workers or members from ever departing peacefully. With LSM, there is only forced silence in subjection to their wide-ranging demands, or a messy divorce. Continued fellowship and/or reconciliation are not available.
Ten years ago I watched a home meeting leader friend of mine down the street lead perhaps two dozen believers from their current church to another. Sure their was some sadness at the loss, but nothing like I have seen in the LC. Christians come and go within Christian churches without the hostility regularly seen from LSMers. It's part of life. It's how the Great Shepherd often must care for his sheep.
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When one leaves the local churches, it's expected you leave like a gentleman. However the same behavior will not be afforded to you by those who remain.
Just as Ohio has experienced among non-Local Church fellowships, so have I. Families leave, but the door is left open for their return. Even when they do leave for another church, there's no shunning or cutting of fellowship. The fellowship between brothers/sisters continues. It's just partaking of communion is done at a different venue.