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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I’m going to start this off with a story of an event that just happened last week with my 14-year-old son. I must have pulled out onto a two lane road in a way that made a driver very unhappy, and as he whipped around me he honked his horn, threw up his arms, flipped us off and yelled obscenities. He was closest to my son who watched him. I felt horrible that my son had to see this display. And as we discussed it he said “it’s OK I’m not bothered but, If it was a highschooler or younger person it would’ve made more sense. But this person was an adult.” My point is—this was a grown man acting like a child not caring who his audience was as he was being really nasty and unkind. His middle finger, dirty looks, his yelling obscenities was all towards my son sitting the closest to him as he drove by. This anger had no filter, no thought, and it damaged my son in a way this person cannot take back.
ENOUGH ALREADY!!
I, as a mother of three boys, actually, three teenage men, is completely disappointed in each and everyone of you speaking poorly of your brothers and sisters.
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We on here do need correction from time to time in this respect I think. And I have seen others here ask forgiveness for how they were communicating (me included). Let me say that I have had a fairly similar observation as you, which I have brought up before.
While the Lord took me out of the LC, I have not had the degree of negative experience that some have had while there, for various reasons (e.g., the locality I was in, the time, etc.). So, to me, yes it sometimes looks like nonstop Lee and LC bashing just cuz that's what we do here. Though my objections are not always received the way I'd hoped, there is still usually good discussion around things, so I've continued posting here. (I'm always reminding people to not throw baby out with dirty bath water - though some see nothing worthy of keeping . . .)
And Aron brings up a good point about the "Christianity bashing" that most of us experienced in the LC. This teaching became a hindrance in me, in having fellowship with dear ones in other places. But the Lord has worked in me and has gotten me largely past that now (though it took perhaps 25 years), so that I can have good fellowship with most any believer, no matter their outward practice (as Lee might say, "disregarding the non-essentials of the faith"). This is not a tit for tat sort of thing I bring up, but rather it illustrates that we all have the divisive flesh to contend with. Just like the driver screaming obscenities - he was fully in his flesh (whether he was perhaps even a believer, I don't know). The Lord has left us with the flesh and given us a reborn spirit, so we always have a choice in this life.
So sister, please forgive us if we appear to exhibit the flesh and not Christ!
Any-a-ways, that's just my buck-two-ninety-eight, for what it's worth . . .