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Originally Posted by Igzy
We were brainwashed early on that being "only for Christ" meant being "separate from Christianity." This made sense to us. But the fact is, it was false. In fact, the opposite is true. Being only for Christ means you don't focus on the shortcomings of Christianity, you focus on the people there.
We liked to say that we weren't separating from the people, but from the system. This was a rationalization, because the net effect was that we separated from the people in a major way.
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Now this I can go along with.
Of course, "recovery" and "remnant" theologies almost always create exactly this kind of situation. Special people who essentially go off to private compounds and abandon all other Christians. It is only by the fact that the membership is not quite as controlled as the leadership would like to think that some of them actually get along with other Christians fairly well.