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Originally Posted by Igzy
Once a set of leaders has decided that they are the top authority in a city, they are pretty much unassailable and can do whatever they want, as long as they emboss it with a spiritual patina.
What clause in the Ground of Locality doctrine addresses this inevitable slide into corrupt dominance? What do the members do when this happens? Well, we've seen from the history of the LCs that they don't have a clue.
Basically they designed a car without brakes, believing they'd never need them. The result was a lot of people got injured when the car inevitably crashed.
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If we "quietly and honestly" consider where Jesus was establishing His ekklesia in Matt ch. 16, we don't see any suggestions that it would be delineated by political/urban subsets like Jerusalem, Antioch, and Corinth. Nowhere do we see Jesus' proposed organizational schema, except in sayings like, "If you want to be great, be the least".
We may see someone take a few select verses, conflate them to some universal organizational prescription, trying to bring the whole globe into its submission, all the while cutting away unhelpful chunks of the Bible, and making assumptions about human nature like "the top leaders will be incapable of error, thus won't need correction". If we "quietly and honestly" consider all this, we may notice how much Anaheim now looks like Rome.