The LCS Factor

[Peter Debelak]

Originally Posted by Matt

2. It was enticing to the innocen-minded. The idea of being part of a special group of brothers/sisters that were "IT" made it easy for people to buy into it initially.

Matt

Matt:

This post is not a response to your general point of whether the "ground" became something put on a pedestal, it is just an empiracle challenge to your quote above. This may be true statement (that being "IT" was an enticing factor to join the group), its just not obvious to me that it is. In fact, many - even most - folks I know were attracted by something other than the "we're IT" sentiment. Yes, this focus on being "unique" did grow for many, if not most, but I'm not sure it was the (or even an) enticing factor.

The testimonies that come to mind when I ponder the testimonies I have heard about what attracted folks to the LC, have more to do with the lovely community, the felt power in the meetings and the mutuality among the believers. For others, there really wasn't even anything outward that attracted - not a practice, not a doctrine - in fact, just the opposite. One brother who came in in the seventies recounts that he was really really really annoyed by the whole group after his first meeting, but also knew that that is where God wanted them to be.

I admit that I have a small cross-section of knowledge about why folks came into the LC - so I am not disagreeing with your point, just asking whether you base this assessment on multiple accounts, or just an intuition.

In Love,

Peter