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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I am not sure what 80 or 90 or even 100% Asian is indicative of in this instance? Are you saying if the number of Caucasians does not increase then the church is not growing?
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Your question is disingenuous. Even Winess Lee knew this was a problem 30 years ago when he began putting strange new emphasis on "gaining typical Americans." The subject is actively discussed each year in the FTTA's "God-Ordained Way" class. The Blended Brothers dream up ways of correcting the "racial ratio" (Minoru Chen) with methods of repackaging WL's ministry and initiatives like migrations to low-minority-population areas of the country and "conferences for African-Americans," etc. There are entire "local" churches around the U.S. that are entirely Chinese, with no English-language meeting or even English-language website.
So, the LC may be growing (if it even is), but the pattern of growth demonstrates that the LC is simply not what it claims to be.