Double Standards

[aron]

How come Lee loved Martin Luther but hated the Lutherans, Baptists, etc? If you read the definition of a 'sect' (sorry but no citation), they're an offshoot of an original group, who despise what the original became, and say they're persecuted for righteousness' sake, but - get this - they say that they're the 'real' and 'true' original group! They, the sect, supposedly fulfill the mandate of the 'original' original group! The one that was pure and good Everyone else became hopelessly corrupted. Thus the need for the sect to separate and isolate in judgment from everyone else.

So Lee et al were the 'true' followers of Luther, not the Lutherans. Lee was the 'true' follower of Zinzendorf, Wesley and so forth. So he could trumpet his 'goodly heritage' in the Baptists, where he was saved, while simultaneously despising them all as harlots, corrupt, Babylon, etc. The best of both worlds!

Lee could wave the 'orthodoxy' credentials of evangelical Protestantism, while denying the legitimacy of any evangelical Protestants except his sect. Because his sect was the true, real heirs of the original church. Why, if Luther were alive today he'd be in a LC locality, not with the corrupt Lutherans! Wesley would abandon the Methodists in a heartbeat to come to the LC, who recovered not only the ground of oneness, but the method of masticating the processed Triune God and becoming God in life and nature but not in the Godhead, consummating the New Jerusalem. So LC members could sing Wesley's hymns (both Charles and John), while having nothing to do with any of their spiritual progeny. Because Lee was the true heir of the Wesleys. Don't you know.

[aron]

Originally Posted by aron

Lee could trumpet his 'goodly heritage' in the Baptists, where he was saved, while simultaneously despising them all as harlots, corrupt, Babylon, etc. The best of both worlds!

Lee could wave the 'orthodoxy' credentials of evangelical Protestantism, while denying the legitimacy of any evangelical Protestants except his sect. Because his sect was the true, real heirs of the original church..

In the LC they could sing, "O the love that sought me, O the blood that bought me, O the grace that brought me to the flock" (Hymns # 1086), written by Spencer Walton, a missionary in the South Africa General Mission, while despising Walton's South Africa Mission and every other mission as well! Because the LC is the true mission and the true flock, restored to God's original purpose, and they alone can sing it and know the 'true' wondrous grace, because they are the 'true' flock. Get it? The LC both claims the reality of Walton's hymn, and denies it to every other believer, including Walton himself.

The LC reply is, "Oh, we don't say that we're the only church, but that we are only the church". Yes, and you also say that everyone else isn't 'only the church', but are instead fallen, degraded, dark, impure, leavened, etc. Only we the LC "normal church life" saints know the true grace which brought us to the flock, because we're the true and original flock. Everyone else is, at best, partial, circumscribed, and a weak imitation. We alone possess the reality of God's hearts desire.

"You say that you are rich, but you have nothing: you are poor, wretched, blind, naked."

[Freedom]

Originally Posted by aron

"You say that you are rich, but you have nothing: you are poor, wretched, blind, naked."

That is the sad condition that the LC is in. You don't have to look very hard at the LC to realize that it's not all it's made out to be.

Any group claiming to have something such as a "vision of the age" is in grave danger of being blind to their true condition. While most Christians are content with being imperfect people living in an imperfect world, it seems some feel the need to view themselves as if they are a step above the rest.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Freedom

it seems some feel the need to view themselves as if they are a step above the rest.

Just as I've heard prophesied enough times to quote, "we have everything and Christianity has nothing".
Easy to make a blanket statement without supporting facts when there's a closed heart from fellowshipping with fellow believers.