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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
Many who have left the LC now attend a denomination or nondenominational church. I myself immersed myself in a charismatic/ word of faith church. While I grew in faith, after 6yrs of being a loyal attendee, tithing and donating etc.. the Holy Spirit of God began showing me things that kept raising red flag after red flag. (I even posted here on this forum at the beginning of my attendance my “positive” experience of attending “church”.)
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Good on you Carol. I watched some videos on the charismatic/Word of Faith stuff, definitely some red flags there.
Like you, I have left the LC and I'm currently praying for the Lord to link my wife and I up with a group of believers in our area. Home meetings would be great, breaking bread together, just having a church in a house... but I don't know what the Lord will do so we're trying to stay open to His leading.
One thing a brother shared with me recently via a Zoom home meeting (not LC, we attended with some others in a different state) that I really appreciated is that with a lot of groups you see that they have stressed one aspect or another of the Trinity way too much while leaving the others as kind of a second thought, and that may have resulted in some serious issues. For example in modern/"mainstream" Christianity there is a huge focus on the Son and being redeemed, but where is the fear of God and trembling we should have in front of the Father? Where is the respect for God the Father's holy nature and absolute power and authority? Or in the charismatic movement (of which I'd say the LC is a part), there is a lot of (over)-emphasis on the Spirit, to the point that it starts going in weird directions because people aren't being like the Bereans and seriously examining their ideas and practices against the measuring stick of the Scriptures.
Anyway, I also feel like we should all remember even this is "church". Christians dialoguing with Christians openly and in spirit/following the Spirit, even just via text online, is still church. And if anyone here is looking for a home church or Christians to meet with in their locality/area and needs prayer, please send me a message, I'd love if we could pray with/for each other. I agree with Sons to Glory that house churches... I mean, during this pandemic, it just kind of makes sense. In the Local Churches such a huge deal was made out of "taking the ground", but I don't know why my wife and I can't just break bread on a Sunday and have a home church time (if we don't have others to meet with yet, which would be better) or join others via Zoom and do the same. Jesus didn't exactly lay out a huge bunch of rules regarding how to do the Lord's Supper, it was just "do this in remembrance of Me"...