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Originally Posted by aron
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.
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Just pointing out that your understanding of the locality doctrine does not match what Lee/Nee taught. It was local but also not local in the sense that all are completely independent and have nothing to do with the others. This is more of a Baptist concept. The localities are various expressions of the one church.
Each church was local. But ministry was extra-local like Paul's ministry. In the New Testament, all the churches that Paul established had the same ministry. He gave the same instructions to them all:
1 Cor 7:17 "This is the rule I lay down in all the churches."