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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I think it does not matter who they were or why they left. It's basically saying, "people left our church, since they left it proves they never really belonged". John refers to "us and them".
Suppose these people were not anti-christ but wanted to leave to start their own denomination according to their own preference, would not John say the same thing?
I think John, being the last apostle/disciple alive at the time, would not have included as "us" any who did not stay with the apostle's teaching. To leave John's teaching and John's fellowship was like leaving Christ.
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Again, you are equating your Witness Lee group with the universal church.
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OK. So what do we have to be like to be the true church?
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You can't "do" anything. Are you a believer, Evangelical? Then, you are part of the church.