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Originally Posted by Terry
The names argument is really ridiculous. I may need adjustment on this matter, but when an assembly files for a tax id, the assembly needs to take a name. Suppose you're a group of Christians who want fellowship with LSM and want to take the ground, and someone else in your city already has a tax id for the church in ........, you'll have to file under a different name.
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Ridiculous is the word. Why is "the church in Anaheim" the officially sanctioned name, but the "church of Christ" is not approved. What about the "church of God" or the "church of God in Christ?" Are not these names straight from the scripture?
As some have said following the shameful lawsuits in Columbus, Mansfield, and Toronto a few years back, "
tell me again about that church with no name suing their brothers over the rights to their church name." Woe to you hypocrites!
Having witnessed these battles first hand for many, many years, once we gather all the facts together, it becomes patently clear in the Recovery program
that a church is a proper church only if LSM sanctions it as a "proper" church. Forget the Bible, forget the Spirit, forget the Lord, forget the truth. None of these really matter. Only Blended Brother approval matters. Before them it was only WL that mattered.
One can examine carefully every quarantine, every storm, every conflict, and every rebellion and one will arrive at this same conclusion. It is the only one that the facts of history support.