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Oregon · 01-28-2009, 12:31 AM

I heartily agree with you Don. My experience doesn’t go back as far as you but it does go back to the spring of 1970 and things were very different back then. I remember the first young peoples conference I went to in Elden Hall that Spring. It was overpowering. I can’t remember how many were actually there…..maybe 400 or so…but I had never touched anything like it in my life. The meetings all started long before the official starting time. You could hear those wonderful enlivened young people singing and praising the Lord out on the side walks on the way to the meeting. John So gave us some stirring words.

I remember in those days we had a big map of the USA on the wall in the entry of the house with colored pins in each place where one of the churches were. There were only between 10 to 15 pins on the whole map The organizational structure of the “local churches” today simply didn’t exist back then. There was no Recovery Version…..no Life Studies….no Morning Revival booklets etc. But there were a scattering of seeking believers that saw the truth of the oneness of the body in their locality and wanted to practice it.

Things did change as the years progressed. 1974-1975 has always stood out in my memory as the beginning of the decline. When the Life Studies came in and the emphasis to follow Aneheim……..verses in the Word that supposedly told us all to “Speak the same thing” were pushed heavily….over time the local aspect of the church diminished.

Before this I remember many times there would be a moving of the Lord over certain matters in Spokane and we would call the brothers in the other churches in Washington State…..mainly Moses Lake and Seattle…..and the same moving of the Lord was happening with them concerning the same issues spontaneously…..none of us having had any correspondence with each other concerning the matter previously. It was just the Spirit speaking to the churches.

If you were not there in those early days you simply can’t relate it to the LSM church life of today…no comparison. When I read different posts on this forum concerning the
BB’s ….one publication….etc…..that’s not the church life that I believe in or promote.

As to being a “Crank” Igzy…….I don’t care what you call me. I know that there is a wonderful reality of the church-life where the Sprit of the Lord can move in and among His people ……where the saints can speak freely and minister Christ to one another…..and I’m all for that.

01-28-2009, 12:31 AM	#74
Oregon Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 67	Re: ground of locality and generality I heartily agree with you Don. My experience doesn’t go back as far as you but it does go back to the spring of 1970 and things were very different back then. I remember the first young peoples conference I went to in Elden Hall that Spring. It was overpowering. I can’t remember how many were actually there…..maybe 400 or so…but I had never touched anything like it in my life. The meetings all started long before the official starting time. You could hear those wonderful enlivened young people singing and praising the Lord out on the side walks on the way to the meeting. John So gave us some stirring words. I remember in those days we had a big map of the USA on the wall in the entry of the house with colored pins in each place where one of the churches were. There were only between 10 to 15 pins on the whole map The organizational structure of the “local churches” today simply didn’t exist back then. There was no Recovery Version…..no Life Studies….no Morning Revival booklets etc. But there were a scattering of seeking believers that saw the truth of the oneness of the body in their locality and wanted to practice it. Things did change as the years progressed. 1974-1975 has always stood out in my memory as the beginning of the decline. When the Life Studies came in and the emphasis to follow Aneheim……..verses in the Word that supposedly told us all to “Speak the same thing” were pushed heavily….over time the local aspect of the church diminished. Before this I remember many times there would be a moving of the Lord over certain matters in Spokane and we would call the brothers in the other churches in Washington State…..mainly Moses Lake and Seattle…..and the same moving of the Lord was happening with them concerning the same issues spontaneously…..none of us having had any correspondence with each other concerning the matter previously. It was just the Spirit speaking to the churches. If you were not there in those early days you simply can’t relate it to the LSM church life of today…no comparison. When I read different posts on this forum concerning the BB’s ….one publication….etc…..that’s not the church life that I believe in or promote. As to being a “Crank” Igzy…….I don’t care what you call me. I know that there is a wonderful reality of the church-life where the Sprit of the Lord can move in and among His people ……where the saints can speak freely and minister Christ to one another…..and I’m all for that.