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Originally Posted by Peter Debelak
That is, we make "church" or the "group thing" its own independent "mission" from "following the Lord" (at least in practice, if not in teaching) or we think of "church" as a corollary to the "following Christ as individuals" thing.
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Without extended elaboration, the dynamics here are every bit the responsibility of the leaders as it is the "followers." Many of us, upon arriving in the LC's, found a living Christ like we had never known, or perhaps for the first time. This was the normal result of environment with the leaders pursuing and serving Christ. The leaders thus had received from us much "capital" which, over a period of time, they have squandered in their own personal persuits. The resulting "group thing" is often a "leader thing" which for the followers can become an "empty shell" which long ago should have been discarded.