Re: Should I Quit Reading LSM Publications?
Fraternal greetings. Paul rightly made it clear to us that we put everything to the test and hold on to what is good (1 Thes. 5:23). Thanks to the biblical teaching of exercising the spirit, (without stop my humanity, but still using it) I have been able to advance on a personal level in the discernment of spiritual things and the things of the human life. Although I hardly read the recovery materials now, when I can I want to read all the notes of the recovery version to test them and retain the good. All ministries have strengths and weaknesses, and it is necessary to learn to filter and discern. Being active in the church life in this ministry, through my personal fellowship, I was able to discern many things that were wrong, thank to abundant personal reading of the literal written Word.
Now I am investigating the ministry of the brothers of Onebody life, directed by Henry Hon and it can be seen that the good that the brothers received as a legacy of the recovery ministry, they are knowing how to combine with their new ministerial endeavor, since they are brothers who lasted many years in the recovery movement. It may help if you continue researching the recovery material to take the comments as what they are "comments" and not take them for granted as truth simply because they are in the footnote in the recovery Bible. In fact, the recovery version is a excellent translation, and I continue reading it as well as others that I read before other versions.
Now that I have a more mature multi-ministerial vision, I continue to learn to see ministerial strengths and weaknesses and I take what I consider good and what I consider bad I reject. We cannot say that everything in this ministry is bad or that everything is good. This is why it is necessary to learn to be flexible when it comes to investigating secondary topics, and regarding the main topic, we must all be clear and be radical in maintaining our common faith, which is basically that we believe that Jesus is the only true God and only Him and no one else. The rest can be debated everything else, having empathy and brotherly love with points of view and perspectives different from ours.
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