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Originally Posted by Boxjobox
We used to say "so & so doesn't 'see' the church". Meaning, apart from all the history and movements in Christianity over 1900 years, there was still that thing " the church" and "the churches". Local assemblies of believers, gathering together as the called out ones, loving the Lord, the truth, the saints, fellowshipping together, growing in grace, keeping the word, breaking bread, etc., under the leadership of elders in the local assembly who understood and saw this. WL did a good job "recovering" this, and the saints seemed to flourish. Then we were introduced to a different side of WL- the businessman who saw a golden opportunity. His business rode on the back of the churches "vision" and in no small feat, put them all under the yolk of LSM. So the one who introduced meeting with no name took on a name and we can see, he himself lost the "vision". I say no small feat, because the elders and the saints should have whole heartedly rejected such a move. As we all know, some did, and we know the history of the whole fiasco.
Still, that "vision" of the church and the churches still exists, and still needs to be "recovered". I mean, what is the alternative? The pastoral business model of Christians filing into an auditorium and watching a pastoral performance, and a midweek bible study? No Thank You!.
You would think ones like Minoru would wake up from the LSM nightmare shake off the disgusting error and repent of the error. Elders in lthe LCs should do the same: Dump the whole LSM entrapment and return to the scriptures and the "vision".
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Actually J.N Darby “recovered” what you described
https://bibletruthpublishers.com/chu...ical-4/la62754. Watchman Nee copied him. Witness Lee copied him. And, after much success they all ruined it by trying to force their ministries on the churches.
Boxjobox have you checked out one body.life, read any of Henry Hon’s books, or attended one of the events organized by one body.life? Henry Hon suggests a way forward for Christians looking for the assembly where “each one has” in his book One Ekklesia and often speaks about that at one body.life events. I’ve met a few saints from So Cal at those events you might want to connect with.