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Old 04-15-2018, 08:56 AM   #78
aron
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Default Re: Relationships/Courting

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Originally Posted by Drake View Post
Structure is a small price to pay to keep them from major negative life events and to foster positive and proper relationships before the Lord.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
In the LC, terms like "proper" and "positive" are dog whistles, cues to conditioned insiders as to what's going on and what's expected. You'll hear about proper church life, proper teachings and interpretations, proper leadership, and proper relationships, all defined within the circle and modified as the subjective leanings of the promulgators change.

It's a ministry of exigency, where the only constant is the shifting winds of teachings, of "moves" and "flows". But the "flavor" never changes: it's whatever the ministry needs today. Propriety is defined on such shifting sands as these.
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