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Originally Posted by Terry
In the city where I live, the local LSM church came about by taking ones from nearby LSM churches.
If these churches (who only take LSM publications as their basis for fellowship) truly believe God's move on the earth operates solely through them, wouldn't it be for all Christians and not just those who are in agreement with LSM?
If it is for all Christians, wouldn't there be an increase?
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A lot of these things are just fruits of the ground of locality teaching, especially the practice of migration. How is a typical LC established? They send a group of pro-LSM people to a city and start a church there. There is nothing "local" about doing that. Things like migration really serve to show what the ground of locality teaching is at heart.
Migration is also where a lot of the LC statistics get skewed. A few years back the LC started some websites showing all the cities they would be migrating to in order to start churches. It all sounded exciting (as it was meant to), because supposedly all these new cities would be taken. Well, there was only one problem. This was all to be done through having people migrate to these cities. This was pure propaganda, because it was meant to create the illusion of "the Recovery" spreading all over the U.S., when in essence, people were just relocating to different cities. The end result might be a bunch of new LC's, but they for the most part they are just members from other larger LC's.