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Originally Posted by Terry
Until the last sentence, I agreed with your post. The local church leaders have choice which ministry publication (if any) to receive. My points are these:
1. Receiving or not receiving LSM publication does not qualify or disqualify an assembly as members of the Body.
2. For a ministry to insist churches take their ministry publications and no other, how is that not denominating? Emphasis on the ministry publication is the denominating factor.
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The offensive rule I am referring to is not that they receive or don't receive the LSM. To me the offensive rule is that they cannot receive any other ministry. I don't see the Apostle Paul or Peter or any other Apostle having the authority to forbid a church from receiving one ministry or another. "I have planted and Apollos watered". I just don't see anywhere in the NT, with Paul or John or Peter where they forbid a church from receiving another ministry.