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Originally Posted by Drake
I mean think about it... why would anyone waste the precious commodity of time measured in years and decades to continuously day in and day out wallow in gall and rancor about the place they have supposedly been delivered from??
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Matthew 18:31 "When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened."
What do you think the king said? "Why are you are just wallowing in gall and rancor! Get over it!"
Do you think the king would put up with reports of unrighteousness? Of course not! Yet we're supposed to pretend the LCs didn't happen, and just "get over it"? Or how about, "Oh, we don't care for right and wrong! We just care for life!"
Many do quietly move on, of course. But with some, what they saw and heard bothers their conscience, so they say something. They find a pubic forum like this, and "tell it to the church"; and if others pooh-pooh their complaints, they'll repeat them, until they feel they're heard.
Now, having said that, maybe I've already been "heard", and am merely projecting my own unmet needs, resentments and anxieties here on this forum onto "the ministry", just as I hold that Witness Lee did with his ministry onto "the church" vis-a-vis "degraded Christianity". But to my credit, I'm not charging $$ for my writing, nor propping up my dead-beat kids via the sale of trinkets on this website.
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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I would second that. This forum definitely filled in the blanks on a lot of things I didn't know and helped me make sense of my experience in the LRC. It also helped me to move on so that I could "give thanks for all things" and testify "that all things have worked together for good".
I have noticed that the impression is often given that what we experienced in the LRC was a strange thing.
Jehovah Witness — 150 million
7th day Adventist — 25 million
Mormons — 14.8 million
In addition experts estimate that 2.5 million Americans have joined cultic groups and had their kids raised in that environment in the last 30+ years https://www.icsahome.com/elibrary/faqs |
The Local Church isn't some pure replacement for "degraded Christianity"; rather, like the JW and SDA and Mormons, it's a poster child for it. Post-Protestant Christianity is full of delusional, self-styled "Seers" and their misled captive flocks. As such, it's worth discussing this group in it's larger context, that of religious, self-appointed "deputy Gods" manipulating gullible and ignorant people for their own personal gain. One can learn a lot - the LC isn't the only unbalanced Christian group out there.