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Originally Posted by Freedom
This is is what idealism can lead to. It creates a paradigm that cannot accept or handle negative feedback. When inevitable situations occur, groups like the LC will point fingers - Barnabas should have done such and such. Maybe, maybe not. But the proper response should be to make revisions and move on. If a certain church model is unable to do what it claims to do, it's either time to revise it or move on.
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Basic, simple humility tells us to resist pointing fingers. I'm not arguing for relativism. God knows the ultimate truth, but part of that truth as we are to live it is "let each be fully persuaded in his own mind. Surely that extends to principles not plainly prescribed in the Bible, like the local ground. LCMers who are for the local ground make the good the enemy of the best, and that a best they cannot even verify. They just believe it. They are like the old hardcore Southerners who trumpeted the refrain "The South shall rise again!" It didn't.
The fact is God uses uncertainty about certain things as a way to keep us humble, general and open. Nee and Lee hated this uncertainty, and so pretended it didn't exist. They acted certain about things they could not reasonably be certain about. The result was pride, stricture, judgmentalism and division. Not exactly what the local ground was supposed to deliver.