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Originally Posted by OBW
You exclude fellowship with me unless I come to you. I make no such distinction concerning fellowship. Who is therefore exclusive and who is inclusive?
But this is useless. You will come back with yet another hollow statement that you are free to refuse others simply for not coming through your doors. And the blatant demand for conformity to your rules is your basis for not being in unity with all those others.
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This has been my feeling. In the Local Churches, they will except most believers, but not all. If you come, you will be received. However it doesn't go both ways. Fellowship with non-LC assemblies is considered as "shaking hands over the fence." There could be an all city together in prayer. Could be a place like Austin, TX. Many churches will come together in unity except one. There's one that believes only they are on the proper ground.
Same applies when it comes to home meetings. If you meet in the local churches, you will want to invite friends. However if your friends invite you, there may be a polite decline. As in the local churches "if the fellowship isn't through LSM publications, there can be no fellowship."
I'm not making this up. I read it in a HWFMR edition back in 2014 last time I visited a local church in Southern Cal.