How Can This Forum Improve?

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

The problem here, I firmly believe, is that we are trying by reason to persuade men of the error of their ways. We are using human resources to try to overcome what is in reality a spiritual problem: That problem being deadened spiritual senses. The senses of these people have been dulled, have been put to sleep, and they have been taught to submit to a "spiritual authority" apart from the Holy Spirit. My friend, you are trying to wake the dead. Only God can do that.

For years I wondered why things were not as we had been promised. I had nagging questions about whether we really were God's unique testimony on earth. If all that we were told was true, then why did we become so barren and stagnant? Is this the best God could do? And why did the leadership tend to destroy those who were doing well? Why so many storms and unexplained conflicts? Why? Why? Why?

Perhaps the initial work of the Holy Spirit within was to cause me to question all that I assumed to be true. I knew the Recovery had issues, but where I could I find answers? Had anyone ever left the Recovery without being judged by God? I needed to talk with someone who had successfully exited without being so "negative" that all my defenses engaged upon impact.

I definitely was not alone. The quarantine of Titus Chu seemed to awaken hundreds from varying degrees of slumber. People needed information. People needed to talk ... or listen to others talk. That's where this forum became so useful.

But for those, as you say, who are sleeping peacefully in the LC's, and do not have an "inner nag" bothering them, I have no delusions that a million forums would affect them. They have been successfully "inoculated" as they say, and if their spiritual needs are being met, then I am truly happy for them. There's no such thing as a perfect church; many are far worse than the Recovery; and some of the LC's are actually quite decent, as I have been told.