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Originally Posted by alwayslearning
What is particularly odd to me about Benson's teaching is it directly contradicts a practice set up by Witness Lee: separate Chinese-speaking meetings with their own set of elders, etc. I'm not sure if this is still the way the LC system operates but if it is at minimum his remarks are hypocritical.
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You are right about the language hypocrisy. All foreign language churches were condemned as divisions in the body of Christ, and not a true testimony of Christ in the city. So the Anaheim Korean Church was condemned but the Korean-speaking-meetings in Anaheim were perfectly kosher. The key was to use the proper "politically-correct" terminology "Chinese-speaking" or "Korean-speaking" and God will magically bless you for being on the "proper ground."
It got a little comical during announcements. It was a "mortal" sin to just say "Chinese-meeting," so everyone was well rehearsed at saying "Chinese-speaking-meeting." After a while we would hear, "college-speaking-meetings." How weird is that? Did we really believe that all these correct "utterances" were the key to unlock Biblical blessings?