The Old Way vs. the New Way

[Boxjobox]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Boxjobox & Aron - agree completely. I was led to the LC in 1974 and it was all those things! When I left for good in 88, the New Way was settling in, and many were bothered big time. There was so, so much potential it seemed, to have a big impact on Christendom - if only it hadn't gotten all exclusive and prideful, and all things LSM (focused on WL in such an unbelievably dogmatic way).

Then again, I'm persuaded the Lord fully has all this (i.e., building His church) - what you presented just wasn't for the LC to do at that time. And unless the Lord does something truly remarkable (which He is known to do!) in the LC, it surely won't be through that group!

A couple of years ago, I picked up Millers Church History out of my library and started reading it. I became so angry with God that He allowed the Church of Rome to have that kind of dominance over Christiandom for over 1000 years. For all those years, people were boxed into an entity that was part scripture and part decrepit. It really was not that long ago that scripture came to the common man. But with scripture came different interpretations and different sects/divisions. It's enough to drive one to atheism! So along comes the realization that in the scripture you just have "the Church" and those who believe and gather are "the Church in their local". Names/sects drop, Christ the Lord is uplifted, the potential for all spiritual blessings to be employed is there.

Then the whole thing gets turned backwards by "the New Way". I'm of an optimistic view that those meeting in the structure of old way, who got turned around, will look at the scripture, repent and turn (a little redundant, I know) and drop the "New Way". Let's face it, Lee is dead, his New Way produced a pathetic sect, the scripture is still speaking- though drowned out by the constant LSM propagand, and I want to think that scripture will prevail, that light will shine, that the saints hear the Spirit speaking, will recognize from whence they have fallen and turn back to the old way. It won't be easy- one's belief system once formed and ingrained into "every fiber of their being" is not easy to extract. But God is God, and the scripture speaks and divides the inward parts, and the heart of the believer longs for the things of God. I'm optimistic.