[UntoHim]

Opps, I think I left out the most important part of your post (at least to you and me, not nessesarily to ToGodAlone)

Originally Posted by John

I have experienced "a church without official, trained and educated leadership." It was a kind of utopia for me.

I don’t doubt for a minute your experience here. But where did this get Watchman Nee? Where did it get Witness Lee? Where did it get us? If you were to ask me in 1975, I would have told you that I was experiencing a kind of spiritual and corporate utopia. I could have pointed you to all sorts of evidence – the love and fellowship among the brethren, the preaching and teaching of the Word, the oneness among the churches, and on and on. Where did it get us? What was the missing element? Why did it end up becoming what it has become? Just sayin.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.First by Augustine, then by UntoHim.