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Indiana · 04-29-2018, 03:51 PM

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Since I was 24 I took the teaching ABSOLUTELY that there should only be one church in a city. It was only recently, at 71, that I could be open to discuss the ground being something other than what our songs and teaching taught us. "Do you see them in the cities, meeting on the local ground".

It has helped me to be meeting with believers whose history also goes back to Watchman Nee in China, and to realize that we don't have the deterrent factor of referring to ourselves as "the church in Seattle" which awaits seeking believers, as a possible stumbling block to them.

Neither is there even a bookroom displaying ministry books from one man, or any man at all, and nothing about a minister of the age, another stumblingblock.

In the link is today's radio message by LSM that happens to mention the ground in a way that WL ministered in 1957 with Christ as the focus and center. That is, Brother Lee spoke a word that was just the same teaching TA Sparks held and also Stephen Kaung holds, except WL included a secondary word on locality. You have to listen for his word on "the ground"during his fellowship; he slips it in there in his speaking on Christ as the ark with the tabernacle (the church) for God's testimony in order to have the ground for the building of the church and the kingdom.

Ron Kangas in the New York conference also emphasized this approach in referring to the ground and also added the rather secondary-sounding explanation for the boundary of locality.

So, if the focus is on "Christ-experienced will produce the building", He's the only way", and the legality of locality is thrown out, THIS IS THE POSITION TAKEN AT SCA AND THE OTHER ASSEMBLIES.

it has also helped me to see how I am treated by those "meeting on the "local ground." That delineation factor of claiming to be "the church" is there between us. And this coupled with "putting Witness Lee on an apostolic pedestal" are the serious factors of division in "the local churches" that have stumbled many. Walking only in love and holding only to the essentials of the faith will restore the oneness.

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Indiana Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 718	Re: Kaung and Lee Lines in America - A History www.lsmradio.com/todays-broadcast.html Since I was 24 I took the teaching ABSOLUTELY that there should only be one church in a city. It was only recently, at 71, that I could be open to discuss the ground being something other than what our songs and teaching taught us. "Do you see them in the cities, meeting on the local ground". It has helped me to be meeting with believers whose history also goes back to Watchman Nee in China, and to realize that we don't have the deterrent factor of referring to ourselves as "the church in Seattle" which awaits seeking believers, as a possible stumbling block to them. Neither is there even a bookroom displaying ministry books from one man, or any man at all, and nothing about a minister of the age, another stumblingblock. In the link is today's radio message by LSM that happens to mention the ground in a way that WL ministered in 1957 with Christ as the focus and center. That is, Brother Lee spoke a word that was just the same teaching TA Sparks held and also Stephen Kaung holds, except WL included a secondary word on locality. You have to listen for his word on "the ground"during his fellowship; he slips it in there in his speaking on Christ as the ark with the tabernacle (the church) for God's testimony in order to have the ground for the building of the church and the kingdom. Ron Kangas in the New York conference also emphasized this approach in referring to the ground and also added the rather secondary-sounding explanation for the boundary of locality. So, if the focus is on "Christ-experienced will produce the building", He's the only way", and the legality of locality is thrown out, THIS IS THE POSITION TAKEN AT SCA AND THE OTHER ASSEMBLIES. it has also helped me to see how I am treated by those "meeting on the "local ground." That delineation factor of claiming to be "the church" is there between us. And this coupled with "putting Witness Lee on an apostolic pedestal" are the serious factors of division in "the local churches" that have stumbled many. Walking only in love and holding only to the essentials of the faith will restore the oneness.