[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by sandwichboy

This was a concern to me. How can we remove a person from the fellowship if we are the genuine church, meeting on the ground of oneness? Not believing that WL is the minister of the age cannot be the reason for being quarantined. That would mean that the ministry and our relationship to it is the ground on which we meet and not the ground of oneness that includes all believers holding to the basic items of the faith. So that means we are a division and not practicing the genuine church life.

Blessed are you sandwichboy, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but our Father who is in heaven! Many of us spent decades under the same spell and under the same hypocrisy. With our lips we claimed that we were "standing on the ground of genuine oneness", but our hearts and minds were firmly planted in the person and work of Witness Lee.

And so our "church life" was not actually built upon the rock of the revelation of "the Christ, the Son of the living God", or any other of the basic items of faith, it was built upon a mere mortal man and his personal so-called "Ministry for the Age". God has sent many messengers, both from within and from without the Local Church movement, but until recent years all have been rebuffed and rejected.

In my experience and observation (about 45 years now) from both the inside and outside, it does take a revelation from God himself to escape the strong gravity that holds us to the Local Church system of error. For some, they need to get knocked off their high horse with a bolt of lightning and the audible voice of the Lord himself, and for others it only takes a whisper of that still small voice. For most of us, it's probably something in between. In any event, it does take a revelation from our Father who in heaven. For many of us it was a revelation that got us into the Local Church movement (we called it "the vision of the church") and it takes a revelation to get us free from that system of error.
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