04-08-2011, 05:19 PM
aron
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I was in a meeting to discuss BFA... They very clearly and specifically reiterated that you do not tell the people that you are from a specific church. If the question is asked you are to say that it is a seperate organization called Bibles For America, that it is not a church, that it is not associated with the local church or RC. This bothered me because it was a lie.
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Another thing which bothered me about the various moves of the ministry of Lee, is this: when I came into the "local church" of Lee I was clearly told "no names except Jesus Christ".... "Only the name of Jesus" was a kind of mantra. Any other name was a distraction and a falling away. So of course every kind of christian organization or association you could imagine was open to our reproof, because every organization "had a name".
I've been gone some years now, and they seem to have sprouted names, and subsidiary organizations, like wildfire in my absence. "The Lord's Move to Europe"; "Bibles for America"; "Defense and Confirmation Project"; "Contending for The Faith"; plus all the various "publishing arms" and media centers supporting the Living Stream Ministry. Each one has a name, a separate organizational structure, with a bank account and hierarchy and 403(c) non-profit number that you can write checks to for your tax-deductable donation.
All these names and organizations, and this was one of the shibboleths back in the day... it's like Animal Farm, where the sheep used to bleat "Four legs good, two legs bad!!"; and now bleat "Four legs good, two legs better!!"