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Originally Posted by Igzy
The problem is to "recognize" proper churches globally implies to not recognize "improper" churches globally, which is carte blanche, eventually, to not recognize any church you don't want to recognize, which is exactly the path the LCM took.
The whole business of defining in black and white what is and what isn't a church is something the Lord and the Bible, wisely, did not equip us to do to. The Bible never, ever authorizes us to discount any group of believers as "not being a church." It just doesn't. Nee and Lee were out in the weeds on this, biblically and, manifestly, by the fruit they've borne.
The Bible shows us that early believers met with those they lived near. Well, what else would you expect?? But the Bible never then says nor implies we have to meet with everyone we live near. Are we all one church in the city? Well, yes, in a way we are. But again that doesn't imply we all need to meet together or line up under the same group of leaders who have gotten it in their heads that they are in charge. Again, this whole misaiming led to the mess which is the LCM. Why is that so hard to figure out?
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This whole matter of identifying legitimate LC's has created a nightmare of politicking, even here in the GLA. We had new churches spring up by those gifted brothers "beat up" by TC. He would publicly shame these brothers into subjection, Chinese style, only to watch them leave and start a new LC the next town over. They would then attend the following training in Anaheim and get legitimized by LSM.
For years TC pleaded with WL to keep these rogue churches out of the published Directory of churches, only to lose that battle as the Blendeds grew in prominence.