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Date Posted: 16:34:37 11/04/04 Thu
Author: CAB
Subject: Re: Hi CAB
In reply to: Nick T. 's message, "Hi CAB" on 10:13:17 11/03/04 Wed

How did your parents get
>involved? Were you pushed to invite them or did ubf
>just try to slip one past you all?

My Mom actually asked me to set it up for her, after I'd been in for several months. She is a veteran of many different Bible Studies, and she was interested. I brought it to my Bible teacher, who brought it to hers, etc. And they set up a weekly 1:1 for Mom.

>That is really amazing what you wrote, if I understand
>it correctly. So they were telling your parents many
>warm fuzzies, and they were telling you many cold
>roughies?

Yep. They never brought up shepherd training, cursed desire, (which I covered in the first few months of Genesis, if I remember right) fishing or the importance of bringing sheep (to name a few things), which I of course had hammered into me several times a week. Plus, my mother's bible teacher never rebuked or reprimanded her the way mine did.

> And the reason is to have somebody's
>parents there to lend it an air of legitimacy? If so,
>that is really cold.

I think so. They would say how happy they were to have them there, etc. and I once heard a shepherd point them out to a new sheep as if to say "see, this is a nice family church." But they were pretty much left alone otherwise.

>There have been so few parent recruits, almost none.
>ubf would rather the recruit doesn't have any parents
>or family. They think it would make their job of
>isolating the recruit alot easier.

Very true. I don't think they would have had my parents there at all if Mom hadn't asked. Also, my age during my time in UBF (16-18) made a difference. I think things might have turned out differently had I been in college and a legal adult, rather than a sixteen year old high school student.

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