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Originally Posted by byHismercy
I disagree with the LC practice of condemning saints in various denominations for their "crime" of not being in the LC. When He gives me love for the brothers and sisters, He never qualified it by the LC denomination only. That teaching is not scriptural and only comes from the LC. Jesus is not teaching me in the Spirit to condemn His members. I cannot and will not go along with this LC mindset, this aberrant erroneous teaching any longer. God bless you!
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Yes & AMEN!
I will give my little testimony here about the last time I met with LCers a few years ago. We were RV vacationing in the NW and I decided to go be with the saints in the LC in Tacoma, WA on Sunday morning. There was very good singing and I was able to release my spirit. Then we had a break to partake of some coffee and refreshments. A brother and I were talking and he asked about our experience with our travel trailer. At one point I began to tell him how good it was - that wherever we were on a Sunday, I would just find the closest group of believers and go be with them. I told him that while these believers I'm visiting may not practice this or that exactly as I might prefer, it was still glorious as they had the Spirit of Jesus Christ among them. I buoyantly told him how good this was, when we travel, and that he should try it.
Of course I knew full well the exclusivity of the LC and how this might be taken by the brother. But there was full peace in me and a flow of spirit to convey this to him!
The brother listened, but had zero response. No facial response. No verbal response. It was as if I hadn't spoken at all about this.
We then went back to the second part of the gathering where there were lots of testimonies about Life Study related things (but I don't think any fresh experiences of Christ were conveyed whatsoever). I'm a little said as I remember and write this . . .
(Let me also say that visiting and being with these other groups as we travel has been a real growth area for me. Where I meet regularly we have a very open meeting style where saints function freely, and that I really enjoy. Visiting other places, they do not often have the level of member functioning and other participation that I am used to. When I started visiting these other places, I was overly critical. I began to realize how much being critical just killed the flow of life within me. Over a number of these experiences the Lord gained something in me to not be so critical, but just to enjoy who these ones were in Christ. This has been very precious and has resulted in some wonderful experiences of Christian fellowship in far-flung places of the country!)