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Originally Posted by Trapped

Hi Peter,

I appreciate your coming out of the woodwork to post. From the responses I have received both here and from current LCers, it seems like this is kind of an equalizing topic for both "sides". As a fellow church kid, one thing I am trying to understand in a general way is just what I grew up in, and the reasons why I grew up the way I did because of the way things were done/said in that place. What I'm stuck with here is, if everyone has the same "how do we know?" question, why on earth did all the brothers and all the young people's serving ones in the LC speak so concretely and definitively about needing to have the Lord's speaking and leading? We talk about church kids struggling because they are drowned in premature knowledge well before they have the maturity in life and experiences in life to have any level of understanding of what their minds are being packed with.....well, what on earth good is it to lay out this, essentially, impossible and unattainable requirement on young kids that apparently the ones speaking it aren't even experiencing? I know these are rhetorical questions, but it's these ones that distract me all day long.

Trapped

You are right on the mark here. Teachings from LSM are highly destructive to the child like faith of young children. I've seen healthy kids go to FTT's and return with their faith shipwrecked. There's a reason why well over 50% of our young people want nothing to do with faith in Jesus Christ.