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Originally Posted by Evangelical
What am I going to say, that there were no churches or Christians until Lee/Nee came along? Even they did not believe that.
Lee/Nee believed that any Christians "outside" were the church. That's the core principle of locality - of all believers in the city, not having any divisions. Any that do not consider those outside the church to be part of the church, are a sub-division or a sect.
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On this we agree. But that's only one shoe.
The other shoe is that Nee/Lee believed that their group had some kind of validity and centrality that other groups did not. This all was established, they believed and as you seem to, merely by calling themselves "the church in...", which somehow magically granted them a recognition from God that transcended all other groups--even to the point of establishing their elders as authorities over all Christians in the city, and obligated all other Christian churches to close their doors, resign their elders, join the LCM, submit to its leaders and follow Lee's ministry exclusively!
Wow! That's a lot of power established simply by calling oneself "the church in...". Pretty impressive!
This, clearly, is unreasonable nonsense. But it is the essential LCM attitude.