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Originally Posted by Evangelical
According to the teaching of Nee/Lee, the church administration (eldership etc) is local, but the ministry is extra-local. Paul set up local administrations in each city, but his ministry was extra-local. I don't want to discuss the rights and wrongs of this doctrine, this is not the place for that, just pointing out to you that according to Lee/Nee, Paul's ministry (and hence his letters) was extra-local.
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If the local churches received extra-local directions, then how local were they? We were told by the ministry to be "exactly identical" with each other (see RecV footnotes in Rev 2 & 3). As an example, an elder in my region tried to hold a conference, but was told to re-speak the last training. Then they sent out a Blended Co-worker to make sure directives from GHQ were obeyed.
Nee and Lee sold localist utopianism, but it vanished into the nothingness from whence it came, and they blamed the victim. Supposedly we hadn't been absolute enough, pure enough, or zealous enough. We needed to re-consecrate ourselves to the extra-local programme, the so-called "vision of the age". I was there, and heard this kind of stuff. We were upbraided for being dull, dormant, stagnant.
There never was a local church. It was an illusion, a conjurer's trick, separating the flock and eventuating mass deception and delusion. All courtesy of the extra-local ministry.