Really, Thank You? You would recommend this church to everyone? What about people who question or want to discuss the doctrine at Lakeview? What about people who don't believe that to be a member of Lakeview is to be part of a special inner circle of God's elite? Or people who are not willing to cut off their family members? What about Christians who don't believe in speaking in tongues every Sunday at 10:25 on the dot, after the slow song? What about women who want to wear pants to church? Or, gasp, want to speak their minds without being called sinful. I could go on, but do you reccomend Lakeview to these people? Only if they conform, right? I remember several sermons about how Lakeview was not for everyone. It was for God's special elect only. Or has this changed?\r
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""the people demonstrate the love of Christ in such a beautiful way"" Can you please give examples? Through shunning? Wishing death on ex members to their faces? Ripping apart families? Telling ex members that they had a spirit of darkness over them since birth and you always knew they would cause their families heartache? Letting current member's adult children nearly die and advising them to continue shunning them. None of this sounds much like love to me. None of it. And I don't think God would be very pleased to have you so suruptitiously announce that the people of Lakeview display the love of Christ, when they more accurately display the judgement and condemnation of man. ""Judge not, and you will not be judged; Condemn not and you will not be condemned; Forgive and you will be forgiven."" John 6:37.\r
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I forgive you Lakeview, the James and my parents, my ex friends, all of the leadership, my brother...all of you, for what you have done to me. Even though you have never asked for forgiveness, but have instead, condemned me. I will continue to show the love of Christ to you and everyone. \r
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To be clear, this post is not mud slinging. Mudslinging and insulting are an end to themselves. I want change. i want the children of Lakeview to be set free, because I so clearly remember being a captive child there. And if you think that you can tell me to keep my mouth closed, because speaking out about what happened to me is fighting against God and not man, you are wrong. I will not be silent. And I will not be controlled by your manipulations and twisted words any longer. \r
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Being wrong is one of the most difficult things to admit. But you are wrong in how you treat people. God will always respect sincere repentence. And so will His people. \r
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