Rebaptism

Freedom · 02-17-2016, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by aron

All those young college students lining up last summer in Illinois to consecrate themselves to Christ and His True Church, His Unique Ministry, His Up-to-date Speaking and His Final Move to End the Age reminds me of nothing so much as this. Whip up the hype, line them up. Works every time, so it seems.

http://www.ageturners.com/overflow-f...ge-training-2/

I started an "Age Turners" thread about this a while back, after I saw a bunch of Facebook posts about it: http://localchurchdiscussions.com/vB...ead.php?t=5378

There's just too much hype that goes on at these types of events. I can say that because I attended two consecutive college trainings when I was in college. We went away for a week, got all stirred up and returned back to a normal LC life of mediocrity. Perhaps it was the disconnect that really made me see through the whole illusion.

In one of aron's posts on the thread I mentioned, there is an excerpt from Lily Hsu's book showing how the hyped up environment and consecrations is something that dates back to Nee's time. To all the current LC college students who have been made to feel that they are "age turners", I wonder how they would feel if they realized that during Nee's time, the YP were made to feel exactly the same way and were having the exact same 'experiences'.

The terminology might change over the years, but the experience that the LC tries to emulate is the same basic hyped-up experience. The experience involves group pressure, whether it be consecration or baptism. One of the problems with LC consecrations, and even baptisms is there is a great amount of importance placed on experiencing a psychological high.

When I went to local college conferences, there was always a time set aside for baptisms to take place. There were always a large number who took the opportunity to get baptized. The atmosphere was really 'high', and it always made me feel somewhat discouraged as I remembered when I got baptized as a young person in a more 'normal' setting. In some environments, the baptisms were such that everyone was "on fire" for the Lord and the atmosphere was so much more exciting. It took me a long time to come to the realization that the atmosphere was irrelevant. I should have realized that in the first place, but because the LC has placed such an importance on 'experience', those who can't measure up are usually made to feel inferior.