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Originally Posted by Igzy
Sure it does. The LCM believes there is one church per city and each church has one set of coordinated elders, usually with one lead elder.
This leads to the following problem. What if there are two groups in the city and each claims to be the city church with its own set of elders and each set of elders is convinced the other set should submit to them. How does this get worked out?
I'll tell you how the LCM handles it. They go with the elders loyal to LSM.
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This is absolutely true. Recently in Columbus and Mansfield, Ohio, LSM worked with their newly appointed loyal, yet childish, "elders" to sue the church in court for property, bank accounts, and their "name." That's right, their name!
Evangelical sounds to me like an idealist in some distant LC who has only a sanitized book version of his church's history. He reminds me of Martin Luther, the devout Catholic monk, who was the staunchest Roman defender in all of Germany, that is until he made his first pilgrimage to Rome, and saw the cesspool of corruption first hand.