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straw said:
We had moved to another town and we were miles from the AOG. We did attend eventually but due to their involvement in the 'Discipleship' programme (so like the SS) we were forced to leave, hardly, we were told if we did not like it we could leave.

I've seen many ex-Charismatics/Pentacostals "scattered" into other cults or back into a very worldly lifestyle. It seems to me that only a few "hard core", stay for any length of time. Even in the RCC, countless numbers stay but only nominally so, and this because of pressure from other family members and/or a false comfort and security in "tradition". This, rather than a reverence for, and study of God's words in Scripture.

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The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.

So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered. [Ezekiel 34:4,5 NKJV]

Denny

Romans 3:22-24

Denny

Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." [John 6:68]