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Originally Posted by zeek
Here's some doublespeak for ya. We are all just brothers and sisters. The clergy-laity system is part of poor poor Christianty. It ain't happening in the local churches. It just happens that the "saints" are provding a stipend, paying the rent and maintaining the homes of some of the "brothers" who give messages (read sermons), fellowship with the "saints" (read counsel them) and make the important decisions. In other words, some of the Brothers were clergy in everything but name.
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The clergy/laity doublespeak always rubbed me the wrong way. We said we had no clergy/laity system but that wasn't true at all. We just arranged it differently than the traditional Christian clergy/laity systems.
Our clergy/laity system was based around Witness Lee. He was our top clergy, with Lee appointed co-workers clergy on the payroll.
Our hypocritical clergy/laity system never did sit right with me.
And what did the co-workers that left the local church do? They went on to become clergy elsewhere.
No clergy/laity system? What a joke? Now the Blended Bummers are the clergy in the Living Stream Ministry local churches ... and Ron Kangas is the lead clergy....