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Originally Posted by jesusislord
No church is perfect, if the Lc doesn't suite you or abused by anyone within it, isnt it easier or healthier to just forgive and move on? Keep lingering or live in the past is wasting time and adding more negativity to ourselves. I know it's hard to move on completely coz some of us spent yrs within it and got damaged..
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You are right. No church is perfect.
Even if the church was "perfect," it might not be "right" for you at this time.
The teachers at LSM have a way of manipulating your heart so that to "just forgive and move on" is
not easily possible. Lies and guilt and anxiety and fears from their false teachings haunt the heart from moving on. The many stories and testimonies on this forum are proof.
After leaving the LC, we visited a nearby community church. The youth pastor was leaving the church, and the elders prayed for the family in the meeting. We were shocked. That would never happen in the LC. Anyone leaving the LC must be branded a failure. Or worse. It's just pride. Arrogant pride. The worst of it is not what they say behind your back after you leave, but their lies regurgitating in your gut. This forum helps to vomit out some of that garbage.
All LC teachings are leavened. We hope and pray that members can "
hold fast the liberty they have in Christ" (Galatians 5.1), and also "
hold faith and a good conscience" (I Timothy 1.18-19), as they slowly detox and unleaven their hearts from the influences LSM's rotten teachings and practices.
We are today just like the disciples whom Jesus warned when they reached the "
other side," and He told them to "
Beware of the teachings of the Pharisees." (read Matt 16.5-12)