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Originally Posted by Ohio
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?
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I have never seen anything wrong with meeting as a Korean Church, Chinese Church, or Russian Church. These type of churches are necessary to meet the language needs of some Christians. If I was in China, I would do my best to join an America Church so that I can understand the services in my language. It just doesn't make sense to condemn a church for being language-based. This has nothing to do with violating the one-new man.