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Originally Posted by Ohio
Concerning the 7 churches in Rev 2-3, it was repeatedly said in the Recovery that their "differences were all negative," and on the positive side, they were identical..
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This strikes to the heart of the issue which is "are they short circuiting the speaking of the Lord?" Creating this uniform speaking is a way to short circuit the Lord's speaking. There are many examples in the OT of the "false prophets" all saying the same thing only to have a real prophet walk in and ruin the whole sham. Requiring that the speaking come out of a LSM publication is a non scriptural requirement. If someone tried to speak in a meeting and was told that they were out of order solely because they are not quoting from a particular LSM publication then that would be a non scriptural requirement on the saints.
From my own experience I witnesses meetings in which quoting WL was encouraged, promoted and applauded. However, it was never required and most saints, the overwhelming majority of those that spoke (based on numbers of testimonies, not numbers of minutes) did not quote WL. Of course I am not talking about the test during a training I figure that is clearly a different situation.