[aron]

For me the clearest indicator is rigid conformity. All LSM "local churches" must be "absolutely identical", with "no differences whatsoever". No difference with whom, you ask? With HQ promulgations. If HQ changes week-to-week, so must the rank-and-file in the hinterlands.

"God" is incarnated in "Christ" who has a "Body" which is the "Church" which must be "one with the apostles", which means whatever the Maximum Brother is thinking today. "Just be a tape recorder", we were repeatedly advised. So "God", operationally, is whatever the Big Boss is speaking today.

Of course the HQ will stress to rank-and-file that this is preferable to the Wild West of Christianity, where every man does what is right in his own eyes. In this case, we in the LSM "local churches" are rather to do what is right in Big Boss' eyes. Somehow that's the solution.