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Originally Posted by Terry
I don't know, but speaking from experience you had speaking from the Bible versus speaking from a LSM publication (post 1990).
In my time in the 1980's as a teenage brother, the local church environment was conducive for inviting friends. By the 1990's,you would have second thoughts of inviting friends to a Lord's Day meeting. I had even heard instances where the brothers didn't want "new ones" coming to the Lord's Day meeting as their first meeting.
If a local church meeting isn't conducive for a visiting brother and sister, doesn't that tell you the local churches have become narrower than they used to be?
Because if you don't share the same vision as LSM publications espouses, you're going to sense a lack in care, and you're not going to last long.
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In my last locality they had separate meetings for the newly recruited freshmen students for several weeks at the beginning of the semester.