OBW — My Journey

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Originally Posted by aron

... there is continuity in the human experience, which your avatar touches on.

Lee made the error of trying to do a 'clean break' from the christian tradition, and the fruit of his move has shown itself to be quite regressive and reactionary. It is not progress. Progress is incremental, and builds on the past. Christianity, for all its errors, has a continuity that links back to the church fathers, and through them to the apostles and Christ, and thus to our heavenly Father.

All the groups that try this "clean slate" approach err precisely in this vein. Yes, the past is full of mistakes, but God wants you to build on it. The foundation of the christian experience has been laid. Don't try to build another one. If you don't care for the traditions of the past, fine. Keep it to yourself. If you attempt to institutionalize (i.e. make them conditions for fellowship, and impose them on others) your rejection of the past you merely create new human traditions, apart from God, and worse than before.

What Excellent insight brother 'A' (for Aron)

You touched on some much needed TRUTH that I can relate to! After leaving the LC, I'd visit a church here & there to prove to myself my 'openness'. But I really had a hard time swallowing some of the teaching/preaching. I tried not to be judgmental but I was. Eventually, I just wandered in the wilderness..going around and around the same ole' mountain the Israelites did for 40 yrs. Thankfully, I only wandered 25 years! That was long enough though!!!!

So once I immersed myself back into the Word of God, fellowshipping with Christians who freely talk about Christianity without painting a negative picture of it as we did, the sectarian stronghold over me broke.

'You' need proof?

My posts reflect how I live & who I AM in Christ Jesus. I think that is why I come to these forums, especially this one. I want to encourage my brothers & sisters in Christ who are or were in the LC.
..that we may all May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
[Ephesians 3:18-19]
I kid you not....sometimes I feel like I'm about to experience a Heavenly Explosion in my spirit, soul and body!!!