Talking to Believers in the Local Chuch

[byHismercy]

Originally Posted by Trapped

I'm right there with you. In one of the messages from the recent semi-annual training in December the brother was talking about not living by right or wrong but by life. He gave some example of it being "right" to visit a sick neighbor if you live in the realm of right and wrong, but if you live by the sense of life then you will ask the Lord "How do you feel about me visiting my sick neighbor?" before you do it.

All I could think is how strange it was that they would throw up the warning lights about something we are commanded to do - love your neighbor - and that if everyone lived by that strange teaching then everyone would be, as you said, paralyzed waiting for a sense that will simply never come.

I'm not sure that the New Testament ever talks of a believer "living by a sense of life". The LC somehow has created this separate thing called "life" that people are supposed to live by, rather than simply having a relationship with God.

Yep, Trapped, I was just thinking about you. I thought you would understand, based on something you wrote a while back.....having to do with making life choices....it really is not a teaching they got from the bible. I love it when the Lord speaks clearly to me and I have crystal clarity, a sense of life, if you will. But in my experience, for day to day minutia and life choices.....I do not have such a sense. Just the word which, praise God, He gave us! It is such a slippery slope, with the LC. The teaching seems really good, common sense based, even a person might take it at first with a strong 'yes' within.....but is it scriptural???

Beside this point, and to try and return to the opening post.....regarding speaking to the members openly and honestly, that kind of honest discourse was completely shut down on the LC side for me. They stopped speaking to me in person, by text, phone, and email. Full stop. So there is kind of no way to go on, no way to look at any particular subject with them, in my experience.