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Originally Posted by Freedom
With students, the process goes on from there and they use baby steps to introduce aspects and practices of the LC. I think there is a lot of consideration as to what to introduce to each person at a particular point in time. On a more general level, I have heard it said many times to not bring a newcomer to a Lord’s Table meeting right off the bat. To me, this kind of thinking clearly demonstrates that there is something about the LC that they wish to “hide” from newcomers.
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I've also observed this type of thing. Full-timers and other local church members will go out of their way to coordinate
the timing of when a particular "new one" from the campus will be introduced to the home meetings, the big meetings, the
Holy Word for Morning Revival books, "calling on the Lord," etc. Even as I write this, I realize that this could be considered rather innocuous, or, it could certainly seem to some people like they have something to hide. And I think they do lose plenty of potential recruits on account of that.
But I think they're also willing to be content w/an overall retention rate, so to speak, that is much less than 50%.