How Can This Forum Improve?

[aron]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If you really want to grow this ministry - to make it the effective outreach you sense it must become - then you don't need to dress it up. You don't need to make it easier to navigate for the tech savvy. You need to open it up.

This Forum should not be just for members and ex-members. It should have within it a welcoming element of common fellowship to ALL members of the Body of Christ. It should reach out to and embrance Brothers and Sisters everywhere. Should it minister specifically to the people who are in and who have left the LRC? Certainly brother, that's your burden - the Lord Himself gave it to you. But it's focus ought to be on the Word of God, by the hearing of which all men may be saved.

If you open it up in such a way, then brothers and sisters in Christ who do not know anything about the LRC will become aware of it. That awareness is valuable, because it may be that the Lord will put it on the hearts of His people to pray for those caught within the LRC. It may be, that this awareness with innoculate the innocent who may be otherwise caught up in it, and it may be that those still within it will finally listen and understand that you are hear not to corrupt and defile them, but out of a genuine love for them. That you, that we, are nothing to fear - and that the Lord Jesus Christ is far bigger than they have ever been taught He was.

I concur. Our discussion is and should be about God's salvation in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, revealed in His word. Many of us have been through the Lord's Recovery churches and teachings, and our discussion often reflects that. But this forum could be bigger than "disaffected ex-members".

We are Christians first and foremost, and the discussion of our christian journeys should not be limited to that part of our journey which was unhealthily obsessed with the teachings of one man.