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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Hey! After reading your post I was reminded about all the times I had a similar feeling. As a college student in the church life I am sometimes discouraged. I have never had the feeling to leave in the same sense but often times especially with Covid I doubt myself and the saints around me. What has allowed me to stay is knowing that no church is perfect but the Lord is the one who has put me here. We are all Shepard’s but we are also sheep. The Lords tender care over me, Him putting me in the church life, putting me in a divine family, and affording me the opportunity to see the high peak of the divine revelation is what has kept me all these years. The Lord meets us where we are at. If you feel angry or frustrated or mad , tell Him. Even when I am mad at my situation I tell the Lord. He likes to hear us. He might not fix our situation but He does supply Himself to us as grace. No church is better than others, in fact I have many Christian friends from other churches that I enjoy the Lord together with. It probably has to do with the fact that I grew up in the church life but after cultivating a family here and knowing that our life is not our own but the Lords is what has allowed me to stay. As the church we know we are knitted together with ALL believers and we stand on the same ground with all those who call on Him with a pure heart. I hope all is well with you and would like to keep up with what you decide to do (:
- a stranger who wishes you the best
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Unregistered kind stranger,
With all due respect, and it is a lot, the high peak of the divine revelation is God's economy.....according to Lee in "Living a Life According to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation":
"Centuries later Martin Luther made a further discovery. Luther saw the matter of justification by faith (Rom. 3:28). He discovered that salvation is not by works but by faith. After this, many other students of the Bible made further discoveries. However, before us, no one ever discovered God’s economy with Christ as its centrality and universality and all its reality. It was not until the last ten years that we put all these things together to have a full picture of God’s economy. This is the highest peak of the divine revelation."
But Lee made up God's economy in almost the same way that a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. His teaching on God's economy is not according to Scripture at all.
No church is perfect, that's true, but the local church will condemn and point out what they think are evils in other Christian churches while suing and monitoring everyone who shines the light back on them. This is hypocrisy at its finest. Additionally, we are not called to have a perfect church, but we ARE called to discern the truth and hold teachings up to scripture. Deviated doctrines are what much of the NT is concerned with correcting. The local church is full of deviated doctrines but is cut-throat to anyone who points it out. They are not concerned with the truth, but with being right and having a spit-polished shiny exterior while hiding a lot of dark things on the inside.
I'm thoroughly encouraged that you enjoy the Lord with friends from other churches. That's wonderful! But the teaching in the local church labels your friends "spiritual fornicators".
I hope my response to you isn't a downer, but I felt compelled to say something. I'm happy to dialogue a little if you disagree with anything I said.
Trapped