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Originally Posted by Terry
It's part of life. I dare to say we all have gone through high school. Once you graduate and move on, most of the relationships created in high school is only for that period. Post graduation, whether it's college or into the work force, new relationships are formed.
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I keep hearing from different sources that one of the primary values of Facebook is to discover why it is you didn't keep up with those people from high school. You soon come to realize that the common link was high school, and you aren't there any more.
For the LCM, it may be that the most significant link with many (not necessarily all) is the gathering around the "distinctives" of the LCM — Nee, Lee, the ground, recovery, etc. Therefore if you have discarded those, your common ground is lost. We may have claimed to be mainly about Christ and the church, but it was "the church" that was the predominant thing, not Christ.
In fact, it was seldom just Christ. Christ was almost always tied to some peculiar trait of Nee/Lee/LSM/BB theology. Mostly the church or the body. And those were not the whole body or church, but their peculiar subset.
So the Christ they served was effectively divided. Dismembered. Incomplete. Not that Christ is any of those. But by delcaring that Christ favored their ways and theology and disfavored all others, they declared a Christ that was "complete" without all of his followers. I'm not sure I know that Christ.