Re: The Local Church Lexicon — Common Phrases
Seems that what to call the group that is the target of this forum has gone on before. And with uncertain results.
If you want to call it what they call it, then you call it "The Recovery" or "the recovery" or "the local church" or "The Local Church" or even "The Local Churches."
If you mention something about names and denominations, they will claim no name and say that they are "just meeting as the church in [city]."
But that denies that they went on record in the Harvest Hills lawsuit as being a collection of churches that identified themselves as "The Local Churches" and a series of "Church in [city]."
But for the rest of us, since there are a lot of churches that are often much more local to us than the one that calls themselves that, "local church" or "the Local Church" or even "the Church in [city]" is not really palatable.
So, since they do refer to themselves generically as "the recovery" (with or without capitals) or even "the Lord's Recovery," Some have started using "LRC" as short for the "Lord's Recovery Church."
And that won't sit well with most current members anyway. But it is much better than "the Witness Lee Cult" (as Justyn sort of says at times) or "the Leeites."
__________________
Mike
I think . . . . I think I am . . . . therefore I am, I think — Edge
OR . . . . You may be right, I may be crazy — Joel
|