I need a church life that isn't led astray!!!

[awareness]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

Sons to Glory!, If you simply google "Cargo Cult" (just like Harold did) ....
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Or you could get much better information about the Cargo Cults from where I did, long before Wiki had anything on it, from a book entitled, Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture by Marvin Harris.


And, I can easily compare Lee's local church to the Cargo Cultists, but I won't cuz I don't want to get in trouble with brother Untohim ... Whom I love dearly.

[UntoHim]

Touche, Harold, touche! Still off topic!

Let's get back to "I need a church life that isn't led astry!!!".
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[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

Touche, Harold, touche! Still off topic!

Let's get back to "I need a church life that isn't led astray!!!".
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And what a topic this is - a real cry of the heart I think! But it's similar to what a couple of us posted today on another thread - trying to find something with humans involved and without warts --> well good luck with that!

Look, I am most blessed (and sometimes even made to realize it) - to be involved with a group these past 20 years that far exceeds my expectations. He has, without doubt, placed me here - the bulls-eye was drawn for me on Scottsdale before I was born. I am convinced of that. So until He specifically tells me to go somewhere else, "This is my rest forever, here will I dwell . . ."

Can I be so bold as to wish that the rest of the body of Christ could experience what we have here? Yes, I do wish that. The best of the so-called Recovery without most of the warts. Thanks be to God!! "It's nothing I do, His mercy's just upon me. And God's free gift of grace, becomes an endless joy to me."

[Cal]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

Touche, Harold, touche! Still off topic!

Let's get back to "I need a church life that isn't led astry!!!".
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I need a thread that does not lead me astray!

[awareness]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

Touche, Harold, touche! Still off topic!

Let's get back to "I need a church life that isn't led astry!!!".
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Sorry about that. I got distracted by prayer methodology.

But why compare the local church to the Cargo Cults when a better comparison might be with the church in Corinth.

Way back in the early days of the development of gentile churches Paul was doing his darnedest to keep the churches from going astray.

I think with Nee, and his private sexual life, the local church went way beyond the failings of the church in Corinth.

And also, because of Lee's sons, the local church under Lee, in America and before, went way beyond the failings of Corinth.

But I'm with Sons to Glory : "trying to find something with humans involved and without warts --> well good luck with that!"

I would go even further. The term "The Lord's Recovery," strikes a chord with Christians seeking the New Testament expression of the church. It sounds good.

Both Nee and Lee thought they accomplished that with one church one city ; like that recovered the whole spirit of the primitive early church ; "job well done" and finished.

But what they recovered was the church in Corinth, and its failings, more than anything else.

And if Paul was having such problems in the early church, what do you think about churches today? Most are just social clubs, with no interest in the early church.

But now we know. byHismercy has his answer. He should move to Scottsdale.

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by awareness

But now we know. byHismercy has his answer. He should move to Scottsdale.

Come on over!

[HERn]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Come on over!

I don't know much, is Scotsdale not an LSM LC? Are the elders independent from the being-blinded-brothers?

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by HERn

I don't know much, is Scotsdale not an LSM LC? Are the elders independent from the being-blinded-brothers?

Scottsdale has not ever really been affiliated with LSM. Some of the saints here were associated with LSM gatherings (as I was), in other places, back in the 1980s.

[HERn]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Scottsdale has not ever really been affiliated with LSM. Some of the saints here were associated with LSM gatherings (as I was), in other places, back in the 1980s.

OK, thanks. Did u know Gene Howell or Al Rick?