[kumbaya]

Drake, its unspoken pressure to the saints to buy this stuff (with LSM being the only thing the churches sell.)

I wasn't saying the churches force the saints to buy the material. I'm saying LSM forces the local churches to buy it, whether is sells to the saints of not. That's just what someone told me and I honestly hope I'm wrong and they had wrong information!

It's like when you sell a product with a multi-level marketing company. You (as a distributor) are still required to purchase (granted at a discount) material or products to maintain your distributorship, just like the churches have to buy the LSM products to keep their "Lampstand" in the church. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

That's just what it looks like to me and based off what I've been told. Everyone seems to be making money at every level and even if they're not making much, they still require them to show the video training, etc....and although its voluntary- the unspoken pressure is there and all that money the saints pay to attend goes to LSM, right?

Oh the dangers of a business making decisions for churches. It actually happens all the time and its a type of spiritual abuse