You don't have to look any farther than facebook to find people still entrenched in that cliche-filled gibberish and TWI think. I don't know if they are doing it to proselytize new recruits or maintain a numbing level of self-delusion. I have my own theory on that matter.
You don't have to look any farther than facebook to find people still entrenched in that cliche-filled gibberish and TWI think. I don't know if they are doing it to proselytize new recruits or maintain a numbing level of self-delusion. I have my own theory on that matter.
Amazing, isn't it?
Those who left twi during the "1988 exodus"....and are STILL entrenched in pfal-speak? After some 23 years "out"......and they gawk and talk like they're "in?" What could possibly be the theories?
This brings to mind the Conybeare and Howson translation of I Thessalonians, which I recently read for the first time. It's magnificent.
I Thessalonians 4: 9-12
"Concerning brotherly love it is needless that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; as you show by your deeds towards all the brethren throughout the whole of Macedonia. I exhort you only, brethren, to abound still more. Seek peaceful quietness, and give yourselves to the concerns of your private life; let this be your ambition. Work with your own hands (as I commanded you), for your own support; that the seemly order of your lives may be manifest to those without the church, and that you may need no help from others."
On the subject of our love for each other as Christian brothers and sisters, being encouraged by God to seek peaceful quietness. Being encouraged to give ourselves to the concerns of our private lives, to let this be our ambition. How profoundly and powerfully true this is. And how funny it is to know this, and then see that it is the exact opposite of the experiences so many have had with The Way International, which wanted absolute control over its followers' private lives and concerns.
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You don't have to look any farther than facebook to find people still entrenched in that cliche-filled gibberish and TWI think. I don't know if they are doing it to proselytize new recruits or maintain a numbing level of self-delusion. I have my own theory on that matter.
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Amazing, isn't it?
Those who left twi during the "1988 exodus"....and are STILL entrenched in pfal-speak? After some 23 years "out"......and they gawk and talk like they're "in?" What could possibly be the theories?
1) A sense of "being there" when things were hot?
2) No other fabric in life to cling to?
3) Proselytizing....so they don't lose rewards?
4) To hang with the "in crowd" you gotta do xyz?
5) Indoctrinated....pure and simple?
6) Other?
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7) Keep trying to convince themselves and each other that there really is a Santa Claus.
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Yeah,If they try hard enough maybe they will get that "feeling" back again.
You have to move on in life.You have to grow up.I amsupposed to know "better" now.
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frank123lol
Lol.
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This brings to mind the Conybeare and Howson translation of I Thessalonians, which I recently read for the first time. It's magnificent.
I Thessalonians 4: 9-12
"Concerning brotherly love it is needless that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; as you show by your deeds towards all the brethren throughout the whole of Macedonia. I exhort you only, brethren, to abound still more. Seek peaceful quietness, and give yourselves to the concerns of your private life; let this be your ambition. Work with your own hands (as I commanded you), for your own support; that the seemly order of your lives may be manifest to those without the church, and that you may need no help from others."
On the subject of our love for each other as Christian brothers and sisters, being encouraged by God to seek peaceful quietness. Being encouraged to give ourselves to the concerns of our private lives, to let this be our ambition. How profoundly and powerfully true this is. And how funny it is to know this, and then see that it is the exact opposite of the experiences so many have had with The Way International, which wanted absolute control over its followers' private lives and concerns.
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EVERYTHING in that verse is the OPPOSITE of TWI. Geeze, don't they read the Bible?
How about the verse that says leaders are supposed to be EXAMPLES and not OVERLOARDS? I guess they didn't read that one either!
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