[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Suannehill

...To meet with the LSM group you must follow certain practices in a certain way. Which tells me they no longer meet on the ground of locality, but on a new ground that they have not yet admitted or recognized. They SAY they accept Christ as a common bond. However, in practice they must DO and SAY things in a particular way The "remedy" is the same for all. Drop "I am of ------". That is the scriptural way. God have mercy on us all!

Ah, that stickler of all sticklers... "in practice"!
"Do what I say and not what I do" does not cut it for Christian leaders I'm afraid, or even for a whole group of Christians who claim to be God's move on earth. Since the very beginnings of his ministry here in America, Witness Lee had a very bad habit of setting standards for others that he himself was either unwilling or unable to live up to. When push came to shove, all Lee and his followers have ever done was to push and shove, just like most other Christians and Christian groups have been doing for centuries.

Sorry folks, but the old adage of "it's the thought that counts" is straight from the gates of hell - at least it is when we are talking about Christian oneness.

Check out what the apostle John had to say:
The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
(1John 2:9-11)

Call me liberal if you want, but hanging a sign outside that says "First Baptist church" or "Calvary Chapel" is not hating your brother. Now let's compare and contrast that with the outrageous statement that "Protestantism is Christless." Here is Witness Lee in the Life Study of Philippians:
"This is the reason that we say that, in a very real sense, Protestantism is Christless, for Christ is outside the door"
http://books.google.com/books?id=jho...esult#PPA23,M1

Oneness is not just what you say, it is what you do.