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Originally Posted by UntoHim
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.
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I can’t speak about Berkeley or Santa Cruz in that time and place.
However, just to be clear, I used past tense because I was describing events I personally experienced in churches over forty years and up to the present. My experience spanned churches in the US north and south, east and west, and abroad. I don’t see any difference today in that welcoming of all believers. However, perhaps Ron mentioning our need to receive all believers, as Indiana quoted from the Thanksgiving 2017 conference, reveals that it could be a problem or the beginnings of one. I don’t know of any in particular but one could infer that speaking had something in view.
Drake