Thank Y. you state scripture in your review and the last lines talk about forgiveness. Can you explain how you show forgiveness. Why is it that when people leave you are not allowed to talk to ""ex"" members. When I left my church I did not experience any of that and am still welcomed back and am considered close friends with those from my previous church. It seems as if forgiveness and scripture is a bit twisted from LCLC's point of view. I also used to go to your church and was disowned from my family members after I left. If I were to come back to your church what would happen? Church is not supposed to be made up of man made rules but of a place that is safe and welcoming and teaching through scripture that has not been misused by man. The reviews here are on account of people's personal experiences, mostly horrific. If your church is good then what can you say about it that shows that it is good. One day when Christ returns we will all be held accountable for our own actions and personal relationship with Jesus Christ. You will not be standing before any other leader, apostle, prophet etc...The scripture that comes to mind is :\r
Matthew 23:\r
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, 3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make atheir phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues 7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. 8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. 11 The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.\r
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.\r
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I do not say this out of hate in any way. I am just hopeful that you will share your side more in depth and know that scripture is our source of Authority and that we should abide by it...faith hope and love....\r
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where is the love?
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