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Originally Posted by Ohio
Oneness, at least where I was, in the LC in the mid-70's had everything to do with your relationship with the Lord and the brothers/sisters next to you. (Now I understand that the changes and demands on LC leaders behind the scenes concerning "oneness" was changing rapidly.)
By the time I left, oneness came to mean one thing -- what was your relationship with W. Lee and LSM?!?
This was no accident. It was by design. It was Lee's design for his little kingdom. Those who resisted his "plans" were asked to leave. Those who refused to leave, had their reputations destroyed first, and then "they decided" it was best for them to leave.
According to their peddled brand of oneness, all other relationships in your life were insignificant, expendable, and secondary to your relationship with "the ministry."
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In the late 1980's a Bellevue elder was reputed for saying at a LDM "If you're not here for Brother Lee and his ministry, you might as well not be here."
Politically incorrect as it may seem, the brother was speaking honestly. Many in the local churches echo the same sentiment, but would lack the boldness to utter it.
In LC speak, oneness is a word containing a double meaning. On one hand as Christians being one according to our lives as Christians in Christ, but in the local churches oneness being one with the blended co-workers, being one for Witness Lee's ministry, and to a lesser extent Watchman Nee's ministry.