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Originally Posted by Terry
It stems from the deputy authority teaching and practice. The phase "offending the body" is utilized to somehow make a preferred opinion legitimate and to discredit or discount a contrasting point of view.
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When Witness Lee and those coworkers he surrounded himself with used this as a license to oust people I could hardly believe they had started scraping the bottom of the barrel so soon. Surely they must have a more tenable position for their excommunicating actions. I think they used the same argument in Whistler against Titus Chu.
"Offending the Body"? Seriously? Which Body are we talking about exactly? Is that the same Body with millions and millions of Christians as members? They're offended by John Ingalls? They're offended by Titus Chu? Is that it?
How about the Church in Cleveland? Did they oust Titus Chu because they are the Body he offended? How about the GLA churches? Are they the Body that was offended?
This term is nothing but a spiritual sounding disguise and when translated out of fake spirituality language into plain English it really means: the centralized leaders of "the work" which is now global are offended because you will not march in lock step with them - which BTW includes accepting even the most minute housekeeping details like when you are allowed to hold a conference. Don't you know that the Body is deeply offended if your conference dates conflict with the LSM?