[Indiana]

IGZY COMMENTS

The two great commandments--love God, love people--tell us plainly where the focus of our hearts should be. When we start getting focused on some ideal, "the church," "oneness," "sanctification," "bringing the Lord back," "the consummation of the ages," "the heavenly vision," whatever, people always tend to become means to the end of that vision, and become expendable. This, too, happened in the LC.

People are never a means to an end. They are the end. They are our mission. If we love God and love people, oneness will not be a problem. You think "practical oneness" deals with your flesh? Try practically loving every single person you meet.

Come to mention, what exactly does "practical oneness" mean? It's a very loaded term, with a lot of LC baggage attached to it. On the other hand, surely Christian oneness should be visible. The Lord prayed that oneness would help the world believe. But what does real oneness look like? Does it mean one set of elders and lockstep Christians? I don't think the Bible tells us that.
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These are some of the brother’s comments that he made in one post.

Everything he said was people-oriented. How rare in the “Local Churches” is such a distillation.


He also shared.

"Oddly, things like 'being saturated with the divine nature' don't enter my mind much anymore, when just a few months ago I still thought that kind of thing was really profound. But, you know, that stuff sounds real deep, but it's really not. You know what is really deep? Having a genuine relationship with God and/or another person. That's where the real and satisfying depth is. I thank God He showed me that."

Let us realize that WN and WL also addressed human relationships strongly, at the end of their ministries, as high as their speakings had been.

http://www.makingstraightthewayofthe...ishingBook.pdf for those who would care to peruse their speakings.