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Genuine ministers of the New Testament ministry do not have a ministry with cunning but by the manifestation of the truth
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Oh really! Maybe somebody should have informed the LSM operative of this proper method of ministry before they went into the Midwest coaching some to sue for real estate and bricks and boards.
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...without any fellowship with our brothers who have been working in Europe and following the model of brother Lee.
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Where does God and the Bible figure into all this?
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After this incident, Fernando moved to Barcelona where he continued to work so divisively. They began a so-called 'table meeting' there apart from the saints who, in February 2007, had been meeting for ten years.
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Uh, excuse me, but the Local Churches in this country have a 40+ year history of marching into a locality, ignoring any previous work that was going there, and "taking the ground" with visiting saints coming from hundreds of miles around. How 'bout a taste of your own medicine. Not so good, huh?
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“A local church is one that is open to all the saints in this locality and is open to all local churches. If there is an alleged local church which has no communion with other local churches, this is not a local church, but a repetition of the history of degraded Christianity. By refusing to take communion, this alleged local church becomes a local cult.” (Witness Lee, The Wonderful Christ in the Canon of the New Testament, pgs. 175-176)
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Okay then, wear the "C" word title proudly, because you just described yourselves.
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...we only participate in the communion that is common to all children of God, by which the Lord has given Himself to all believers and all their life and through His atoning death and has become the only body, the same as the head.
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You only participate in the communion of those who hold to the "One Publication" dogma of LSM.
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Brother Dong has instilled in his coworkers a vision that all the churches outside of his work have degraded into Laodicea, that only the churches that were raised up by his work are Philadelphia and as such should be kept separate from those [churches] they consider Laodicea.
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Well, he got the Laodicea part right. Aside from that, he just seems to be a repeat of another Witness Lee.
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Brother Dong then used this myth to exalt his ministry and work above all others. He gives credit to brother Nee who brought matters of the truth to 'traditional' Christianity. However, he devalues the ministry of Brother Nee and Brother Lee, which he categorizes as 'judicial '. On the other hand, he claims that his ministry continues the ‘organic’ ministry of John. According to this myth, only the ministry of brother Dong and what it produces will continue until the Lord returns. This is the system of error (Eph. 4:14) which is used to justify the utter indifference of brother Dong and his colleagues to other coworkers and churches.
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Sounds like Dong was a good student of Witness Lee. Talk about things coming full circle.