[aron]

Originally Posted by Trapped

I wish I could paint a wall-to-wall sign in my room that says "the church is the people". There literally is no church without the people. The church is the people. Building up the church IS building up the people. Building up the church means building up the Jimmy, Johnny, Sarah, Martha, uncle Joe sitting in the meeting next to you.

While there is a certain level of love among the saints in the LCs, there is some undefined nebulous undercurrent of a distinct lack of love too. It's like the saints are used to occupy everyone's time, but there is very little genuine care there. The time you spend together with other saints fills up your time, but there is no depth or solidity of relationship produced. I can't put my finger on it.

The people are for the church, the church is for the ministry, and the ministry is for the minister- that's how the LC runs. It is a fallen "spiritual giant" that consumes everything until the cry from the earth reaches to heaven.