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Originally Posted by Terry
Another way to look at it, suppose Anaheim tells A locality to not receive a particular brother, and the localities elder is not so keen on it and decides to receive at as being fellowship and not as an order. In that instance, would Anaheim take action against the elder for rebelling against "fellowship"?
No matter how you phrase the terminology, it's hierarchy.
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I'm thinking the order would come through the co-worker that supervises the states that the local church was a part of, and not directly from someone with an Anaheim phone prefix. I think local elders could choose to ignore the "fellowship" and be OK, but they might be subjected to continual peer pressure from co-workers and other elders to support the "flow". It seems to me things move very slowly in the LSM-LC movement, and it could take several years of pressure to "knuckle under" a wayward elder. I once asked a leading elder if he was going to follow the lords move to Europe and he told me he only does what the co-worker for our area tells him to do.