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Originally Posted by james73
The problem is, it's not a church...
The whole LSM/local church thing is a scam to support Lee book sales. People pay HK$100 per head to watch a crappy DVD of a conference. They line up to buy the weekly books. Each member must recruit two more members every year and they do it with pride, spiritual pride. LSM's onto a good thing. It even gets tax breaks by calling its sales promotions "missionary work". But don't confuse it with a church, however, just because it calls itself a church and bases its "product" around the bible.
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Well said, james73.
A false teacher has neither power nor authority to establish a genuine Christian church. The only thing he can do is to organize a false church. That’s what Witness Lee did. His organization looks like a church and walks like a church but it’s a delusion. We all know their fruit. As an imitation, the Local Church is rooted and grounded in Witness Lee’s half-baked theology; while a genuine Christian Church is rooted and grounded in the love of Christ.
Ephesians 3:17-19
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
PS On the other hand, I still believe that their half-baked doctrines can and must be tested by the Word of God. Probably, it will prove nothing to brainwashed Leeists. However, it may help other people to see the truth. When Leeists call themselves the only genuine Christian church, they must have some ground for their claims first. And as we know, they don't. So if we call them a cult or a sect, we'd better have bible grounds for this. It’s not for us and it’s not for WL’s devotees, but for other people who can be deceived by the half-baked theology.