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Originally Posted by Ohio

Brother in Faith, one day I was thinking about the old saying of Lee, "love the brother, but hate the system." I realized it is practically impossible to fulfill. It's kind of like telling my dear wife, "Honey I love you, but I hate the way you talk, I hate all those things you do, I hate the way you cook, I hate your family, I hate the words you use, I hate ..."

That's exactly what we tried to do with Christians. We said we loved them, but then hated how they spoke, hated how they served, hated how they worshiped, hated their doctrines, hated their assemblies, hated their ..." Actually we loved them only as long as they potentially would take our way.

Right. And we "received" Luther, yet refused and rejected his spiritual progeny (Lutherans). Etc, etc. Like Jesus said about people who were building tombs to the prophets their fathers killed. All the encomiums to our spiritual heritage, and to those who'd gone before, were so much lip service if we were simultaneously dismissing the fellow heirs of that very spriritual heritage.