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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
What's SHOCKING is your tone and response to a brother you don't know. Your speculation and rush to judgement is as poisonous as the community this man leaves behind.
He left THEM? Turning his back on THEM? I thought we were supposed to be honest between ourselves and God. But for you, personal loyality is more important than what is true. And as far as him teaching... just like many, he MAY have grown up in this, been brainwashed in this and now he realizes it's not all it's cracked up to be. There's an idea!
Here's a man that has years invested somewhere and he's -- yes SHOCKED -- that they are writing him off as Hell's baby because he's not living exactly as they are anymore. It's RIDICULOUS! It's BEYOND REBUKE. It's SICKENING and CULTIC. There, I said it.
In the end, yes, he shouldn't worry much about it. But that's so easy for us to toss out there when we aren't going through it. It's absolutely ridiculous that a family ever has to go through this at all and only points to a larger problem of a fear-charged, acidic, polluted, legalistic and unChristian culture of many of our churches.
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Yea. he is clearly looking at leave them. They arent changing anything.
but what you dont get is that if this guy and I were to sit down and discuss it, I would very likely urge him to LEAVE that church. Why? because I am not a conservative and I suspect in a middle of the road church he will find a place that he fits better..
take your blinders off. Are you really shocked that some converative OPs are worried about somebody they consider is going "charismatic"?
really?
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