[Freedom]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I remember reading somewhere and someone saying that one of the first signs of the degradation of the church is the establishment of a special class of disciples who have attended very specialized training. The completion of such training is taken as a mark of advanced spirituality. This development took place in the Catholic church and so too in the Protestant churches. To all intents and purposes this is also developing right beneath our noses in the LC. Like it or not, the FTT is already a seminary of sorts, a religious institute if you will, or soon shall be. What is sad is that those in the LC system may not see it in this way (the Blendeds, too, may not see it in this way either)...but, c'mon now, if it talks like a duck...quack, quack, quack!...

p.s. the fact that there is a supposedly specially-blessed group of brothers who are called, or who call themselves, the 'Blended Brothers' is a matter of grave concern, and a sign of the start of something that most assuredly does not smack of 'God's Economy'

Have you read "Speaking the Truth in Love" by John Ingalls? He says the following about the FTT and it may be what you were thinking of:

We had seen that in church history, whenever the Lord had raised up groups of His people for His testimony, they had persistently degraded into denominations; and the first two signs of this degradation were unfailingly: 1) the affiliating of the groups under a central leadership; 2) the establishing of a central training center, where their full-time workers could be educated and equipped to serve in their sphere of fellowship. When these two steps had eventualized, they were well on their way to becoming just another denomination, however advanced in the knowledge of truth they were. It was more than obvious that we in the local churches had taken those identical steps and were going down the same road. Should we remain silent?