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Cal · 07-11-2017, 06:20 AM

Theories of how things were in olden times only take us so far.

The question today is what to do, if anything, about the current situation.

Suppose the answer is that we all should come together. The question becomes how.

The LCM's answer is that everyone should join them, that they are the 'one place' everyone should gather at. This is unreasonable however. Who decided the LCM was the place to be, other than them?

LCM calls to oneness on "the local ground" are disingenuous. Many groups meet as the church in the city. The LCM recognizes none of them that are not subordinate to LSM. Plainly they are interested in oneness based on them, not locality.

So calls to local oneness by such as Evangelical are little more than ways to bash any group not subordinate to the LCM movement.

Read my new signature. Since no group can insist that it is THE place to be, all groups must respect the others as long as they are not blatantly sectarian, and simply having a name and meeting according to one's conscience is not sectarian. We all can lament lacks of unity, but none of us can say that the answer to that is for everyone to join our group. That being the case, continuing to harp about "denominations" is non-productive and in fact sectarian in spirit.

07-11-2017, 06:20 AM	#100
Cal Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: USA Posts: 4,333	Re: Major Errors of Witness Lee’s Teaching (Nothing against the “person”) Theories of how things were in olden times only take us so far. The question today is what to do, if anything, about the current situation. Suppose the answer is that we all should come together. The question becomes how. The LCM's answer is that everyone should join them, that they are the 'one place' everyone should gather at. This is unreasonable however. Who decided the LCM was the place to be, other than them? LCM calls to oneness on "the local ground" are disingenuous. Many groups meet as the church in the city. The LCM recognizes none of them that are not subordinate to LSM. Plainly they are interested in oneness based on them, not locality. So calls to local oneness by such as Evangelical are little more than ways to bash any group not subordinate to the LCM movement. Read my new signature. Since no group can insist that it is THE place to be, all groups must respect the others as long as they are not blatantly sectarian, and simply having a name and meeting according to one's conscience is not sectarian. We all can lament lacks of unity, but none of us can say that the answer to that is for everyone to join our group. That being the case, continuing to harp about "denominations" is non-productive and in fact sectarian in spirit.