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Originally Posted by BeardedFool
Be very careful. The local church trainings are focused on control of the will: your will controlled by the church (ie. the leaders of the church). Their control is couched in religious terms and they manipulate your feelings to get this control, but ultimately it has nothing to do with your actual relationship with God. Your noble desire to grow closer to God and be useful to Him is warped and twisted by the local church to serve their ends and purposes. The tree is made known by its fruit, and the fruit of the local church is rotten.
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"ends and purposes" - such as? ... gospel outreach and bible distribution...that's the main thing that people do after the training..and for young people.. get married, get a job, buy a house etc.