Titus Chu spin off-help?

[SpeakersCorner]

Aron,

I’m not sure who you’re yelling at in the above post (I assume it’s me). At any rate, I just don’t see the value in people spending their lives railing about the last church they were in. I get that the the LC was a very tough row to hoe and many left in tatters. I sympathize. I “touched the church” in 1972, spent a summer in a brothers’ house that year, and left in tatters. It was extremely traumatic for me at age 19 (or was it 20? Can’t remember.) I actually prayed the most fervent prayer of my life telling the Lord I would suffer a thousand years of Outer Darkness but I couldn’t give up my soul life another day in the LC.

You know what happened next? I went to visit a friend in a town I’d never been to, enrolled in college there, and on the first day of class the Lord gave me my wife to be. I have always attributed this gift to my honest pursuit of the Lord and honest prayer that day.

Somehow through that very gift the Lord brought me back. God is so gracious if we just deal with Him honestly. Trying to blame others for our failures is a bad place to be though it is extremely human to do so. Eve blamed the serpent and Adam blamed both Eve and God in an impressive bit of passive-aggressiveness (“The woman You gave me …”)