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Originally Posted by Roger
The Local Church helped us to "see" all the "degradation" and unfortunately, once we have seen the degradation of the Local Church, it is the first "seeing" that becomes our greatest hindrance to fellowship. I guess that's what we used to call "wrecked outright."
P.C.
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Wrecked is right. In the LC we learned that Christianity is degraded. Then, we discover the LC is degraded too. That disappointment causes many to just walk away from it all, and go on, to a normal human life, like just about everyone else. That's when it's discovered that always trying to live by the Bible, or the Spirit, by The Body & the Church, is a burden that feels good to be free from.
My friend since Jr. High, and thru the LC, Lisa, called this evening. She's been contacted on Facebook by, I don't know, forty or fifty old LCer friends. She called to tell me about the death of one of the children of a couple we knew in the LC, of an overdose.
What a stunner! I remember the girl very well. She was very pretty, and always nice, polite, and sweet. Now I find out that her brother raped her when she was young, and her father physically abused her. Then, shocker of shockers, the brother she married in the LC, that from all outward appearances was a burning given to the Lord brother, was also physically abusing her. And to add insult to injury, the elders knew of it, and did nothing about it. I swear, you just can't trust your eyes.
And so many of those that have contacted her, many of them that condemned me when I left the LC, have since also walked from the LC, and went on, to a normal human life.
To think that I blindly gave my life to all that. I gave my life to what ended up being just an outward show. And when the show was over, all the actors just walked away, into the woodwork, melting into the maze of life. In the end I gave my life and heart to a human drama, with God added into the mix, to give the pretense the shimmer of both sincerity & urgency.
After the LC, it feels good to be human. Humanity was oppressed in the LC. That's why just about everyone that comes out of the LC says they don't care about their own or others, really. Unbelievers are often better at human care, than is found in the LC.
And so, since all of it is degraded, even the LC, after that, we are indeed wrecked.
Hey gang, let's be wrecked together. Both misery, and joy, loves company.