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GRACE...LOSING WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT

  "Grace is not God's backup plan."                    Adam Miller "Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more."                    Doctrine and Covenants 58:42 "I used to think there were some prisons you couldn't escape from, but I know there's no place I can go where God can't rescue me."                    Bob Goff I've mentioned my experience of losing my membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in a previous post, but have felt that maybe this story needs further detail and explantation...because the whole idea of excommunication (the language has changed since then - it is now called "withdrawal of membership) is greatly misunderstood in and out of the church.  I know that I certainly misunderstood it for the better part of sixty years.  Of course, all I know is what I have experienced, and everyone's experience is different.  And I'm sur