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Date Posted: 17:27:03 04/13/05 Wed
Author: elia
Subject: Re: do you consider yourself a finge member?
In reply to: Nick T. 's message, "do you consider yourself a finge member?" on 10:15:35 04/13/05 Wed

hi,
>I was a longtime member in Chicago, there were and are
>so many bad practices there. The bad practices
>affected me because I was drawn more and more into the
>group. The leadership perpetrated many forms of abuse
>on me and my family and friends.
i'm very sorry you made such experiences. (seriously)

>Elia, do you consider yourself an integral member of
>ubf in Koln, or do you consider yourself a kind of
>fringe member?
what does "fringe" mean?
i'll answer the way i understood it:
actually i'm a so called "2nd gen". so i'm more or less an integral member of ubf.
but my parents never forced me to anything. and i also wouldn't say that my life depends on this church. i see the same possibility to stay forever in ubf as to visit another church or to go to another country as a missionary. i just want to hinge on God's will for me.

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