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Originally Posted by Terry
Don, your words are raising eyebrows. However where are you going with the comment "THE LSM IS NOT ABOUT THE MODEL OF ONE CHURCH ONE CITY"?
Here's my take, a locality can strive to live the model of "One Church One City". If a given locality doesn't recieve LSM publications, there is no desire for LSM to recognize that given locality as a local church. My point is LSM is about LSM. For LSM to function as a business entity, LSM requires the financial support of churches that recieve LSM as their ministry publication.
Local churches can have the Lord's Table and have a Lord's Day service without needing LSM. There is always the Bible.
Terry
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Hello Terry,
Some in the LSM were all about the business. Philip Lee was in it for the money and saw it as a business.
Benson Phillips sees the LSM as the move of God on the earth today. And he has been called to head it up. He also likes to build meeting halls and head up projects.
Others see the LSM as their opportunity to be something or be a part of a larger entity.
The leadership has no passion around the practice of the church life, Body Life, assembly life or any of the terms used to describe believers being built up together and Christ being expressed through the many functions of the various members of the one Body of Christ. They stopped speaking of these matters around the time of the move to Anaheim. Of course many of the saints who had been together contnued to have this desire but they were eventually buried or excluded by the LSM cadre and their faithful followers.
It is too true that they are divisive and thus any teaching they embrace will and can be used to divide including the teaching regarding the church in the city.
By the way, what am I saying that is raising eyebrows?
Hope, Don Rutledge