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Originally Posted by YP0534
And this, which you uplift, would obviously be dismissed as being too much on the "spiritual" side and not nearly enough on the "practical" side.
"Practical" apparently being a synonym for "divisive"...
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I hear what you are saying, dear brother YP0534. Without overly exalting TAS, his "spiritual" approach is ultimately the most "practical" because it removes human hands and human efforts from the work of God and allows God Himself to come into the situation. ("Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain." (Psalm 127:1))
"Turning the other cheek" is obviously the Scriptual solution, but it strikes me very deeply as being the best course of action since it first of all deals with our natural desire to retaliate, and secondly it allows the Spirit of God the freedom to come into the situation and do whatever He wants to do.
When our dear brothers at LSM try so hard to be "practical" with their lawsuits, quarantines, and "attack pack" booklets, they operate in the realm of "the arm of the flesh" and all their vaunted human effort ends up being devoid of the Spirit and being, just like you said, divisive. May God be merciful to them and bring them back to the bearing of the cross.
May God have mercy on us all.