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Originally Posted by Evangelical
The idea of one city per church is meant to be about freedom from the religious institutions. If we leave "Babylon", believers in each city is what remains.
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This is more idealistic theory based on arbitrary definitions. What's a "religious institution?" As with most LCM definitions, "religious institutions" and "Babylon" are always something other than the LCM. You're kidding yourself if you think the leadership of the LCM is not as much a religious institution as most others you might cite.
The LCM sees what they think is the ideal, generously considers themselves part of that ideal, and stingily denies all other movements and groups any of it--all based on proprietary and self-serving definitions of terms like "oneness," "division," "religion," "church" and so forth.
Ideals are great. The problem with the LCM is they use their ideals to aggrandize themselves and condemn everyone and everything else. I just don't think much of Christians who use their view of God's best to prop themselves up and put everyone else down. It's just not a proper Christian attitude. It's the attitude of seeing the speck in everyone else's eyes and ignoring the log in one's own.