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Originally Posted by Tomes
The Local Church movement began by emphasizing The Normal Christian Life and The Normal Christian Church Life (W. Nee). However, the ‘Lord’s Recovery,’ under the leadership of Witness Lee (Li Changshou) --the ‘Minister of the Age’ --was never content to be ‘normal;’ it was never satisfied simply to be one among many diverse expressions of Christ’s Church. The Local Church always claimed a privileged status—whether the sacramental ‘ground of locality’ or the highest revelation.
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Anyone who had spent any time meeting with the local churches would know this to be true. There is always a need for local churches to view themselves head and shoulders over everyone else. Usually applied by putting everyone else down. Whether fellow churches within your own locality or fellow servants such as Greg Laurie, Billy Graham, etc. Speaking on Billy Graham, it is really funny from the ironic sense ones I've known to criticize Billy Graham when I was a pre-teen the same one would express appreciation for Billy Graham's evangelism only after leaving LC fellowship. The LC group think system just doesn't permit appreciation for the Lord's fellow servants outside the LSM/LC system. If Witness Lee,Ron Kangas, etc criticizes Billy Graham, then it sanctions all those in the recovery to ridicule. Understand this is all done in order to say "we alone are God's move on the earth. We in the recovery are the sole expression." Look around at LC demographics. Those who meet there, what do you see?