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Old 04-30-2013, 12:19 PM   #7
alwayslearning
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Default Re: LSM's Sacrament - the "Ground of the Local Church" NIGEL TOMES

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Originally Posted by Terry View Post
You don't even need apostolic appointment of elders. Let's call it what it is. Taking a name. All you need to do is register as the Church in _____ and no other assembly of Christians would be able to register as the same name.
This is true of their practice at it's most basic level. But once done what are they really asking all Christians in a city to do? Meet with them and submit to the local eldership appointed by their apostle. They are the only legitimate church in that city - the Jerusalem. All else are Babylon. In their scheme of things all other churches have no legitimacy.

But what is the reality? In the NT churches did not have to register for tax purposes. So in NT terms registering such a name is meaningless. Today all Christians in a city are the one church in that city and most Christians know this as a common fact. Registering a name doesn't make it so spiritual reality makes it so. Registering a name, "taking the ground" and all the rest of it are just words.

Of course the LC system has shrunk this down and in fact their oneness now has nothing to do with locality at all. It has everything to do with the acceptance of the person and work of Witness Lee for LSM churches and the person and work of Titus Chu for GLA churches.
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