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Originally Posted by Ohio
The LCM is not hypocritical for pointing out the divisions in denominational Christianity, rather because they practice the same things, and worse. This is the part of the story that you refuse to acknowledge. As they say, "there is none that are so blind as those who refuse to see."
The LCM is a history of divisions, quarantines, excommunications, power struggles, etc. There is also a long history of corruptions and unrighteousness in their LSM leadership which they have never repented for, instead they condemn the ones who happen to point it out. Somehow all the irony has been lost on you.
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This is why the idea that if you "meet on the local ground" you are okay with oneness and if you don't you are not is one of the dumbest ideas in church history.
Oneness is like love. You don't go around condemning people for not being loving. You love. Likewise, you don't go around condemning people for not being one. You be one. Oneness means you receive and accept other believers, in spite of differences. It means you go the extra mile to receive and to be a peacemaker.
It doesn't mean you squat on the local ground, condemn everyone else and tell them if they don't join you they are off.
That kind of naivete possibly could have been excused 50 years ago, when the idea of locality was new and untested in America. But half a century later the verdict is in. Locality as practiced by the LCM is just another way a group defines itself with a superficially scriptural idea and uses that idea to divide itself from others--like the 7th Day Adventists insisting they are better because they meet on Saturday instead of Sunday, or whatever.
Time to wake up and fess up, LCMers. It's time.