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Originally Posted by OBW
But without having a LCM present with their specially-prepared, bleached flour chalupa (minus the beans and lettuce, etc.) and goblet of wine, sitting in their circle, singing a collection of songs that always follows a specific pattern (only noteworthy because of their disdain for tradition), they believe that the church is not present.
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For a group which prides itself in "true" church, I found the insistence on "bleached" flour a little disconcerting, since it was not "invented" until the late 19th century. Imagine that, almost 2 millennia of believers breaking bread to remember the Lord, and then Nee comes along in China to tell us that we never did it right until we stopped using
whole wheat flour. Thank God for
the Recovery, now we can remember the Lord
properly.
For me, this all got exposed just prior to our departure. The sisters had an awful time making a bread that wouldn't crack prior to the official "cracking" by the brothers. One young sister, assigned to make the bread that week, mistakenly used whole wheat flour.
For shame, for shame! Oh how we loved our traditions, making void the word of God. The leading sister saw it and broke it up so that it could not be used in the meeting, and then demanded that a
"proper" bread be made.