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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I did not deny that I could have said that but doubted that was my intention. I asked you to produce the quote. You did, and then reading it again, I realized that reference to LSM must have been a typographical mistake, because LSM is the ministry and not something to be joined. I think I meant join the LCM. I was replying to Freedom who was using the abbreviation LCM.
But even the term LCM meaning Local Church Ministries that everyone is using is incorrect because such an entity does not exist.
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So, do you retract your comment?
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It is jumping to conclusions when you implied that just because I said LSM it means I have a denominational mindset. But if I said local church in <city name> you or others would impose your definition of LSM/LC/LCM because you know of my affiliations with the ministry and deny that LSM/LC/LCM represents the local church in <city name>.
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No, your sectarian/denominational mindset is betrayed by your repeated, habitual use of "we," "we," "we," "us," "us," "us," and phrases like "join the LSM," "join the Recovery," "part of the Recovery," etc.
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LC/LCM are terms that others use to refer to us, or should I say, the friendly local church in your city
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Again, "the local church in your city" is not "we" and "us," it is all the believers in that city. You cannot claim to be "the local church in your city." Each time you do that, you have created something different that is smaller than the church.
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But I think I know where all of this is coming from. You are still a little upset that I mistakenly called you a denominational person in the Spurgeon thread.
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I was never upset.
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In that thread you seemed to say that you are not a denominational person because you are a FTTA graduate, or that you have acquired the non-denominational mindset from your time in the Recovery. I'm not a denominational person either for similar reasons.
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Here we go again... what is "the Recovery"? And how does one spend time in it?
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I wonder if it has occurred to anyone, that perhaps the reason so many denominations exist today, is because people have convinced them they are a denomination, and so it is a kind of invisible wall clouding their judgement.
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Sounds like the LC... people have put up an invisible wall between themselves and all other believers. And they think it is okay because they keep calling themselves "the church."
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For example, I can imagine people in Luther's day, telling him that his newly founded church was a denomination worse than the Catholics. "Luther, you are in a sect, a denomination, not the real local church in the city, that is the Catholics. You are so divisive, you are even more divisive and worse than the Catholics because you claim to be the genuine church. Luther, how dare you say that the Papacy is degraded, that is slanderous and divisive".
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So, now the Lutherans used to be "the real local church in the city"?... You appear to make this stuff up as you go along.