[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Drake

we received every believer who came to us, we did not force them to participate in the meetings nor use any Bible except the one they preferred. If they stood to share they spoke on whatever moved them without any hindering. We held Bible studies in our local communities with Christians of every persuasion and explicitly avoided proselytizing. We held gospel singing and ministering in public parks and events and other Christians joined in to help without us taking their names. By invitation we went to the worship services of other Christian groups to speak and we joined in to whatever type of worship they engaged along with their pop bands, African drums, lifting and waving holy hands, etc.. And we held love feasts in our meeting hall and invited Christians to enjoy a meal and meet and greet without any obligation on their part whatsoever. If unbelievers came into our midst a couple of brothers or sisters would try to lead them to the Lord.

Originally Posted by leastofthese

Now do you actually believe that Drake? If so, you must be in a very different LSM Church than the ones I experienced. Maybe outside the US the LSM ministry churches are how you describe, far away from headquarters.

I noticed Drake made liberal use of the past tense...we received...we held...I suspect he did this because he knows the current Local Church of Witness Lee is about 180 degrees/polar opposite from what he describes here. And the simple fact is that the Local Church never actually practiced anything close to what Drake wrote above. Maybe, just maybe there was a little taste of this up in Berkeley and Santa Cruz back in the early 70s, but as soon as Witness Lee caught wind that those crazy kids up there were actually practicing what Watchman Nee taught, he put the big kibosh on it, and proceeded to do what he always did....fire any elder who didn't follow his every whim, and then hire puppet elders to do his personal bidding.