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Originally Posted by Ohio
I remember standing in line at Arby's for a quick lunch with a local full-timer. He commented that Christianity was so easy -- just an hour on Sunday morning -- and how all of our saints were so committed to the Lord.
I thought huh??? Have you never thought of how many of our people are just an hour a week? Can't get some of them to do anything, at times.
I've since then visited many a church. I can say emphatically that no church can survive if every member was just an hour-a-weeker. Every church has a committed core that lives church 5-6 days a week. And every church has quiet, occasional visitors. Just the way it is. Prolly not when a bunch of saints migrate to startup a new church, but wait 10 years. You'll see.
Instead of boasting in your burning church, let us boast in Him alone.
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So many of the things that the LC thinks that they are "getting right" in comparison with other Christian groups is all just based on their own assumptions and what they imagine other to be doing (since they don't actually interact with them).
I remember sitting in a meeting, a brother stands up to share and then he pulls out a flyer he received in the mail from a community church in the area inviting people to an event they were hosting. He then went on to criticize them and spoke about how in the LC there aren't any 'gimmicks'. The whole time I was thinking to myself if people in the LC need to criticize other groups in order to paint a picture of the LC being something superior, then that's really sad.
If the LC could just take a step back and look at its own condition, they might see what's really going on.