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Originally Posted by Igzy
Absolute correct, ZNP.
Simply put, the LR one church per city doctrine is actually a one leadership per city doctrine. It's nothing more than a way to subject as many Christians as possible to a single leadership, which is itself subject to Witness Lee.
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I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
The Lord was sovereign to allow WN and WL to teach this doctrine. It tells us to give diligence to keep the oneness of the Spirit, and that is a requirement for "walking worthily of the calling".
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
However, there is "one Lord". To set up any other authority other than "one Lord" is to deny the One who redeemed us. Peter warned us of this
"who shall privily bring in [a]destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them". Paul was a prisoner, imagine a prisoner having the chutzpah to claim that the only authentic church was one where he laid hands on the elders?!