[OBW]

Taking the ground is a fiction. Plain and simple. It is built upon a fiction that being Christ-believers and followers is not enough. That somehow the city must be claimed for Christ (and the church). As if a city will ever be for Christ.

More important than the number of Christians in a city, or the correctness of the doctrines they hold to is the testimony of their lives before the rest of the citizens. God is not looking for the right doctrines or stance in a city. He is looking for people who will testify of Him by bearing his image in their lives.

But the LCM is all about meetings and lexicons and doctrines and dirt.

They are more interested in thinking that God finally has a lampstand in a large city of millions when they "take the ground" no matter how many Christians have been meeting there for years, even centuries. A recent example was when they claimed to have had the first Lord's table in Rome in centuries.

Yeah. Right.