First Post kumbaya

[kumbaya]

Originally Posted by Terry

I have noticed the culture is very much based on trust and agreement than it is love. When a brother can no longer be trusted or counted upon, he is through in the local church.
I would say scripture that best describes the culture is Luke 6:32.
There's an absence of grace and forgiveness.
Ones I knew from my youth who left decades ago (being children of an elder who left) experienced the shame. Even though express forgiveness realize they're not welcome.
There is not the open door to return someday to visit or meet regularly. Once someone's name has been slandered, local church public opinion is opposed to allowing so and so to return.
With grace you don't have what happened to the late John Ingalls, John So, or Bill Mallon. Grace allows love to prevail. Grace disarms negativity from coming into any assembly.

yes, Fermentation of Present Rebellion, seems void of grace just by being published!

I just wish more people could see.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by kumbaya

yes, Fermentation of Present Rebellion, seems void of grace just by being published!

I just wish more people could see.

You won't find the book on minstrybooks.org. I don't know if it can even be ordered? Maybe the thought was we pull it off the shelves and pretend the book was never published? Perhaps co-workers realize it was wrong to publish, but there's too much pride to ever retract?
I have considered what the outcome could have been if the late 80's had been handled with grace in the local churches instead of allowing it to become a turmoil.

[HERn]

Originally Posted by Terry

You won't find the book on minstrybooks.org. I don't know if it can even be ordered? Maybe the thought was we pull it off the shelves and pretend the book was never published? Perhaps co-workers realize it was wrong to publish, but there's too much pride to ever retract?
I have considered what the outcome could have been if the late 80's had been handled with grace in the local churches instead of allowing it to become a turmoil.

It's sad, but the so-called local churches have always been a concubine of WN and WL. These men have prostituted the body of Christ to earn recognition and a monetary living. There is only one Bridegroom, and he is the Lord Jesus Christ. There is only one Bride, and she is composed of all the lovers of Jesus Christ; in the LSM Recovery and the many denominations.