[OBW]

Originally Posted by Freedom

Given the amount of material that LCers typically cover in meetings or trainings, there isn't time for them to verify everything even if someone had the desire to do so, there is just too much thrown at people. There is usually an implicit trust in the assertions being made simply because an outline lists numerous references.

When I attended some of the LSM trainings, we had our group study sessions, and a few times we actually tried to go through some of the verses listed in the outline. The goal was to try and to make sense of the points using the verses referenced. What always seemed to happen is that we would get stuck on a point and never finish the outline.

I always assumed that it was because the study group was just not good at getting through things. Obviously, there was too much material to get through in the first place, but it also seems like the real reason that we got 'stuck' is because none of the support we were looking for actually existing in the first place. It was a wild goose chase trying to make sense of what the outlines were actually saying.

That is why you are really not supposed to try to figure it out yourself, but to read the ministry first and assume it is right as you read the scripture. Otherwise you might not agree with the ministry.