[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Oregon

The teaching of one church in every city is not artificial UntoHim. How can you make such a statement. Look in the Word of God. Look at the record of the New Testiment...

The “one church in every city” as PRACTICED by Witness Lee and his followers is most certainly a forced, man-made oneness. There are countless examples of Lee and Company moving to a city where a group of believers were already meeting in proper biblical oneness, then “taking the ground” and declaring themselves “THE church in so-and so”. (while calling all existing churches “daughters of the great whore”) Why didn’t Lee and his followers simply meet with a church that was already there? We all know the answer to this question, now don’t we.

Now “early” Watchman Nee is a different matter. My understanding is that he was, for the most part, establishing churches in places that had no healthy, biblically established fellowships. I would imagine that in many of those places there were only a handful of Christians, thus the ideal practice of all Christians breaking bread together in a given city could become a practical reality. This was a far cry from what Witness Lee and his followers have practiced for over 50 years. They move to a city, proselytize the bejeebers out of every Christian they meet (regardless if they are in a healthy, established fellowship or not), then set up shop to spread “the interpreted word” far and wide. This is NOT what was taught and practiced by the early apostles and believers as exemplified in the New Testament…not even close.