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Originally Posted by Indiana
In certain contexts we at Seattle Christian Assembly can say that, and so could Shanghai Christian Assembly say that when Nee and Lee were there and Fenli and Yu. But to identify themselves as the church in that locality might be an unnecessary stumbling block to lay before brethren in the Body of Christ. This is why Nee and Lee called themselves Shanghai Christian Assembly, to avoid setting up a stumbling block. If you are standing on a ground of oneness in your locality, you are on the Body ground, as the church AND are one with every regenerated believer in your locality and on the earth. No claimed distinction stands in the way to make you different. The spiritual reality is enough, before God and man.
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Indiana,
That all sounds well and good except there is one glaring discrepancy in your presentation..... though every regenerated believer is a member of the Body of Christ yet the vast majority of believers in any place do not take that standing but rather take a different standing.....exclusionary standings that do not embrace every believer...of baptism, of a personality, of spiritual gifts, of doctrine etc. .
We don’t need to tiptoe around that and we don’t need to apologize for stating what we actually are. ... we are the called out Assembly where ever we live.
Please provide the evidence of “why” that I have bolded above in your note. Either brother Nee or Lee probably said something to that effect in the course of tens of thousands pages. What is your source for that explanation of the name of Shanghai Christian Assembly?
Drake