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Originally Posted by BreadFish
Hello, everyone,
I am from a large city in mainland China and regular attending LC meetings. In every meeting we read the HWMR outlines and repeat the words. We do not read Bible in the meeting but the outlines. My group haven't study even one book of Bible verse by verse in 5 years. The believers here are increasing slowly, many new believers do not want to attend the meeting.
I think there are some problems in the local church:
1. Many new believers are not fit in the pray meeting and prophesying meeting. People have to prophesy aloud and shout. In the FTT training, the students are pushed to shout aloud, some brother sisters' throat got hoarse after the meeting. A new believer said she was near to cry not due to the love of Holy Spirit, but the fear atmosphere.
2. The group praying is like a pray competition. Anyone doesn't pray fluently in the group will have pressure.
3. Believers are supplied law more then grace.
4. full of arrogant and proud to other denominations.
5. I haven't seen tears in the prophesying meetings in LC. But I have seen tears in the meeting of denominations.
6. We were not taught a whole book of Bible verse by verse, but according to the crystallization study of LSM.
7. I don't feel real love in the leaders.
to be continue..
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This is the first post I have seen which purports to come from the mainland. I'm not sure how many LSM - affiliated congregations are there, but it's noteworthy that a religious group with that many adherents has been able to maintain "total radio silence" for so long. This speaks loudly to me, the degree of control of thought and communication.
1. The constant shouting and repeating slogans is a way to create cognitive dissociation and thence to re-program you with LSM directives.
3. Similarly, the "all is of grace" theme allows them to be free of previous religious strictures, and to create their own. Anything they don't like is "Christianity" and whatever they want is "the Body". They just make new laws, is all. And the last state is worse than the first.