Thanks bro Ohio for your kind, considerate, and wise words ...
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The Recovery became diseased with the sickness of man-pleasing long ago. Many have traded long-term friendships for for a few loyalty perks. Most of them don't have a clue what they have done, thinking that they were just protecting the "testimony of our Lord" and her "faithful servants."
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Sounds like the Roman Catholic Church, and their reasoning's for covering up the pedophile priests. And like a local conservative Southern Baptist church here, who's preacher got caught and confessed to stealing from church members, and raping a single sister. Did they call local authorities? No, they fired him and sent him on his way with, a letter of good recommendation.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
Yes, they did serve to help you depart, but the bitterness we experienced can eat at us if we do not forgive them from the heart as the Lord has forgiven us. If we don't forgive, then we become enslaved to the poison of betrayal, like a Judas' kiss, which can eat at us for decades.
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Everyone I know that has left the local church admits that the LC had a lasting effect upon their lives -- most negative -- that it permanently "bent the tree." And that is true for both, those that forgive, and those that don't
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The Lord has instructed us to willingly forgive as He has, and allow Him to deal with His children as He desires, as He has said, "vengeance is Mine, I will repay." Ours, however, is to love, as He has loved us and proved how much He loved us by opening up His arms to us on the cross.
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Doesn't Jesus love way more than we are capable? Would he really seek vengeance over such a minor matter?
I'm a victim of the LC ... and so are you. But the real victims are those still in the LC, and especially the leaders, like Dale Jackson, Ron Kangas, et al (and their kids). We should pity them. Delusion may not be as bad as schizophrenia, that disables the afflicted from living a normal life ... but on second thought, maybe it is. What's normal about the local church of Witness Lee? Could the Blended Brothers ever be considered normal?
Forgiving them is good ... but it's impossible to keep up with ... as they don't stop needing forgiveness. They need more than forgiveness. They need to wake up from the local church spell and delusions.