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Old 01-05-2009, 09:14 AM   #320
YP0534
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Default Re: The Ground Of The Church

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Originally Posted by Hope View Post
WL could never bring himself to accept the thought that there could be any kind of hierarchy or control over any church or saint. I spoke with him directly a few times about this and it also came up in a few elder-co/worker meetings. He always had a reaction like "how could this ever be." I heard him declare more than once, "We never practice control or hierarchy." I believe he sincerely believed that he never exercised control. From our vantage point on the hillside we can only shake our heads at his delusion. I believe it is the same with the BBs.
As I've said before, Lee never understood his role in creating the current Local Church denomination. Every step of its construction was based as surely as he knew how on a verse or an interpretation of a verse. But just because a decree comes from Jerusalem and out of the Bible doesn't mean it's not religion...
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