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Originally Posted by micah6v8
Consider this excerpt from the book “The Practice of the Church Life according to the God-ordained Way"
"We have been greatly influenced by Christianity to think that among all the saints, only a few are useful ...and most were not useful or capable. This is the reason that the majority in Christianity have accepted the concept that not all Christians can serve God. Thus, most Christian groups select only a small group of believers and send them to a seminary to become educated according to their theology. Then they build these up as a system, the so-called clerical system, which has become a hierarchy in Christianity.."
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I know it isn't central to your point, but I noted some interesting parallels in the blue part, above, and italicized here.
"only a few are useful" - in the LC, these are the serving ones. The rest are called Community Saints.
"Not all Christians can serve God" - not all LC'ers are good building material.
"Thus, Christian groups select only a small group of believers and send them to a seminary to be educated according to their theology." - This is the Full-Time Training, no?
"Then they build these up as a system... a hierarchy in Christianity" - yes, the LC system of FTTA'ers becoming full-timers, serving ones, responsible ones, elders and so forth. The Local Church has its own clerical system, and hierarchy. What they condemn others for, they also do. They just change the terminology, and pretend that it is different. But it isn't.