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Originally Posted by NewManLiving
Our dear brother Evangelical forgets that the Church in Rome was once a so-called local church. She became corrupt and is now considered by many to be an abomination. So you see the Lord can remove a Lampstand. Regardless of how one views the doctrine of locality, the LSM local churches are strictly ministry or business churches that support the LSM organization. Those genuine local churches that disagree with the Blendeds, regardless of the reason are immediately censored. This is NOT the New Testament pattern. Paul did not run his business off the Churches. When all of Asia left him he did not run about trying to sue them and cut them off. He still called them churches. He never considered himself to be The Minister of the Age with his own system of churches orbiting around him. He did not disparage the ministries of the other Apostles. The list of differences goes on and on. By the way, our brother Paul had a very personal side to him as well; "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings being conformed to His death". Paul's goal was Christ alone - to forsake all for the prize.
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Thankyou for your insights NewManLiving. I agree with everything you say about LSM running churches as a business. Paul did not run a business off his ministry. Are you claiming that the newly started LSM churches around the world meeting as a locality do not have a lampstand, simply because they are connected to the LSM?