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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
LC teachings were off concerning marriage and family. How many Christian churches can you go to today that teach you the church comes before marriage and family? Where is this in the Bible? We were taught that if you take care of the Lord and the church, God will take care of your marriage and children. This is clearly not biblical, but we bought it.
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Thankful Jane,
I entered marriage with this same LC training -- exactly as you described here. It didn't work. It was a lie. A self-serving deception. It was always short term gain and long term loss. Some of the brothers who enforced these decrees -- two in particular -- both had failed marriages. After the LC divorce rate exceeded the world, some of these teachings were modified in the GLA -- but the damages were done.
Let me repeat a crucial point -- if you place "Christ and the church" ahead of your marriage, you end up with neither. The living Christ gets replaced with endless church service. "
But, brother, we have no one else to do this." And your family gets replaced by the brothers. "
Why don't you just marry the brothers anyways!"
I must add another point to clarify this phenomenon for all the naysayers: Those of us which came from dysfunctional families suffered the most, and were the most vulnerable. Those of us with solid upbringings in wholesome families, suffered the least. Those of us with faithful and loyal zealots for leaders, suffered the most. Those of us with wise and loving shepherds for leaders, suffered the least.