[Zezima]

Originally Posted by Recovering

The use of the term "the church in <place>" is not unique to TLR

A lot of things in the Lords Recovery that are positioned as unique, are really not that unique to the The Lords Recovery. Read up about restorationism. I’ll make a post later about that topic, but the Recovery’s goal is nothing new despite the claims it makes.

The distinctive belief of the Local Churches (as I heard it articulated by an elder while we were making our exit) is that the "ground of oneness" is the unique "ground" upon which God can pour out His blessing. That is, unless a church meets with that particular stance/posture/ground/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, the Lord has no way to provide His blessing, see Psalm 133 for "proof". The key here is to understand that blessing proceeds from oneness. Oneness is the source or cause of the blessing.

So churches that don't stand on the ground of oneness are doomed to suffer all the consequences of division: lack of growth, deadness, sectarian strife, degradation, . Remember, division is the source of all the sin, idolatry, etc. You can see all of this laid out in "The Genuine Ground of Oneness". (Incidentally, reading that book and seeing all of its faulty logic and inverted causalities, is what finally released me from the death-grip of the idea of the ground of locality.)

When pressed on what the actual basis of oneness in and among the churches is (and I know there are very specific definitions of "ground", "basis", "factor", and so on regarding oneness, but I'm using the commonly understood meaning), pretty much anyone in the LCs who is being honest will admit that it's actually the use of LSM materials and the ministry of Nee and especially of Lee the provides the actual oneness. Ignoring or rejecting "The Ministry" will prevent an individual from experiencing "oneness" in a Local Church and will prevent a church from experiencing "oneness" with the other churches, as has been well-documented in this forum.

Thanks for this. So in short the lords recovery stands on the ground of oneness, that oneness is achieved by only subscribing to LSM material. Anyone outside of the ground of oneness is doomed to fail, and the only way to stand on the ground is to subscribe to LSM material. Round and round we go on the roller coaster of circular reasoning.