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Re: What do you think of this?
I understand the "free to come, free to go" mentality.
However, there is some merit to objecting to someone who sows division and actively seeks to persuade someone to go to another assembly, for various reasons.
I also agree that trying to get a person to go to another church simply because of their race is disturbing.
I understand DA & MOW's points, and I don't think we need to be territorial, per se, but if it was one of MY friends, I would be upset if someone was filling their ears with divisive double speak simply to add to the success of another congregation. How selfish! To try to get someone to go to another church, when they're already saved right where they are! (Assuming there aren't any serious problems.) Those "sheep-stealers" are focusing on moving converts, rather than converting new believers.
DA, don't you have anything to say about such behavior? Address it from both sides, instead of just being critical of the "territorialists."
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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