[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by tasteslikegold

...since most, if not all, Christians groups recognize among themselves some form of supremacy over others, and use them as means of criticizing those other groups. In our battle against the enemy there are far more casualties as the result of "friendly fire."

tasteslikegold, you are aware that this is 2009, and not 1959? Seriously, Witness Lee's ranting about "Christianity" may have had some (and I mean some) basis in reality back 50 years ago, but what Local Churchers don't seem to realize is that while Lee and his followers spent the past 4 or 5 decades hunkered down in their meeting halls, spinning their wheels, "poor, poor Christianity" has been preaching the real gospel to millions upon millions in every corner of the earth, feeding the hungry, teaching the Word and just in general attempting to fulfill the Great Commission.

Over the past 15 years or so, I have been in many different churches of all different stripes, flavors and sizes, and I have not run into ONE SINGLE church or church group or ministry that "recognize among themselves some form of supremacy over others". This kind of thought is absolutely foreign to every Christian Church or ministry that I have come in contact with since leaving the Local Church.

Yes, in the wider "battlefield" of the world around us there is some "friendly fire" among Christians, and this is indeed unfortunate. But it is is more of an exception then the rule. Your Roman Catholic Church stuff is a big, fat red herring.