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Originally Posted by bookworm
Countmeworthy,
This is a very good thread! I had not noticed it until it now resurfaced. Thanks for starting it. I was not aware that you had only been in for 4 years.
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Thanks bookworm... Yeah..only 4 years but I was a die hard for the Lord and the church...that's why
it seems I was in it a lot longer than I was AND also why I did not experience the hardships so many former LCrs did. I was not necessarily a follower of Witness Lee even though I read the life studies, went to conferences and a couple of trainings in Anaheim. For whatever reason, Lee never made me go 'oooooh! gah-gah for Lee'.
I never talked about him to the saints. I talked about the WORD and what I was getting from it. I much rather preferred listening to the messages given by our local elder who had been a Baptist preacher.
You would have liked my locality I'm sure.
That is until we began to hear all about 'brother Lee'. Brother Lee said this and said that...and "Praise the lord for brother Lee." I started getting really tired hearing all about 'Lee'.
Like you, it seemed we were sold out for Jesus in the beginning. I felt exactly like you did
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at home and blessed to be among an entire group of people who were "taking the Lord at His word" and fully trusting (and obeying I thought).
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It is also true
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The scriptures were "living and operative" and the praise of the brothers and sisters in song and word was genuine.
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The Scriptures
still are perhaps even more alive, more active, more powerful, more operative today IN me than they were back in the day. And
Hebrews 4:12 is one scripture I pray all the time! I love that scripture and I remind people all the time of that scripture.
I recently picked up a small little booklet by Charles Capp. In it he writes: TRAIN yourself to speak the Word of God. Now for that reason alone, I am grateful for my time in the LC because it was there I was TRAINED to speak the Word of God. But having left the LC, I have taken speaking and praying the Word of God to a much higher level Thank you very Much
with the Help of the Holy Spirit teaching me how to do it.
Hope to see you at the Cherith this year !
