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Originally Posted by Ohio
Dear Igzy, have you ever read some of the nonsense that gets posted on the Alternative Views sub forum? Former members use this site as platforms to promote all kinds of new age vagaries. After just a few minutes there, ole' Indiana seems entirely innocuous, like a breath of fresh air, like pure mountain spring water.
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This writing took me two months to complete, spending several hours every day on it, and there have been many healthy responses to it. But, it looks like I will be backing away again from the forum, and won't be feeding a negative track now introduced on my thread. I hope others will not continue on that track either out of respect for the subject of this thread, and for me.
My purpose for being on this forum is evident to some but not to others. Freedom has a good grasp, for example, and as a current Local Church member, has not been chased away because of any of my writings or by my objective on the forum. My intention indeed is not to encourage people to leave, but to inform them of the truth, so if they choose to continue to dwell with those in the Local Church, they will do so according to knowledge, for the building up of the Body in love.
If others, like Terry, do not continue directly with the Local Church, then still such ones can care for the Body of Christ, which Terry does, in attitude and by action with any believer, and this includes, at times, Local Church members. An example is his receiving of an invitation to his brothers' house reunion and driving a few hours roundtrip with two full-time training graduates, who have families now, and were caring for the Body themselves in accommodating Terry, and the brother they visited in Oregon.