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Originally Posted by djohnson
Aron I appreciate your post but I thought Igzy was referring to the "ground of locality" doctrine in his post and not a general concept of ground as in a person having the "ground" to do this and that with others. In any event that was what I was addressing i.e. the doctrine of dirt.
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You are right; I dragged my own little drum into the conversation and started beating it. The "smell and taste" test of LC-or-not is, for me, whether people are bossing others around, and telling them how to conduct their spiritual affairs, both individually and collectively. That is what I read into Igzy's reply to you, and why I referenced 1 Peter 5:3.
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Originally Posted by djohnson
Igzy initially I was addressing Hope but I think the conversation has since expanded.
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Well, perhaps Igzy & I took things beyond where you might have intended. But in reference to Hope, and what he has shared; I don't have any insight to the doings of his folks there in NC & his connections elsewhere. Perhaps you have sources "offline" which have given you concern. But I don't see any references in his writings that he holds the "ground of locality" as giving his fellowship the preeminence among all the fellowships of believers in his geographic region. I am not very interested in the "doctrine of dirt", pro- or con, so perhaps I have waded into waters of which I am not suited.
But I was under the LC system for some years, and saw the spiritual paralysis, even rigor-mortis, resulting from the authority model which is invested into the ground of locality. I often sense in your postings some indignation at the re-chaining of the children of God, who after being freed from sin became entangled again in the yoke of deceptive doctrine. I agree, and share this indignation, but I don't see where Hope is keeping folks in this stronghold; rather I see him trying to emerge from it. In this I have an outsider's view, because I don't read every post nor remember everything I've read. So if my comments are unwarranted here please forgive me for intruding where I don't have "ground" to do so.