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Originally Posted by Terry
Even if brother Lee did speak a word the localities don't need to take his ministry to be a local church, some elders don't feel that way. One in particular told me in 1995/96 when I asked about Moses Lake raised in Southern California and not knowing what happened with Washington State localities during the 1980's, I had not idea Moses Lake ceased ties with LSM in 1986.
So I asked the elder, "what about Moses Lake?" (As I had close family friends that came out of Moses Lake.) The elder's response to me was, "they're a rebel church". That statement implies to be a local church, you need to take the Living Stream as your ministry and basis for fellowship if you desire to be in the flow.
Is it possible for LSM affiliated local churches and non-affiliated local churches to have fellowship? Definitely yes if LSM and it's publications or any other ministry is a non-factor. In terms of reading from a text in fellowship, all you need is a Bible. Whether it's NIV, NASB, RCV, etc.
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As I see it, the M.O. of the Recovery can be summed up in three words,
Authority and Submission. Once you look at things in this context (don't mean you specifically,
Terry, speaking generally here), then you can start to understand the dynamic in the Recovery.
In other words, once you stop trying to fit the "round peg" of Recovery behaviors/attitudes/speaking/etc -- into the "square hole" of
all that Biblical stuff you think they surely must care about.
Just speaking from my own experience here...