[aron]

Kevin, very nice article. I myself can't write such well-constructed arguments, because my attention span is too short probably, but I welcome others. Thanks for making the effort.

1. I agree that if Miss Jones marries Mr. Smith and keeps her name, then she can still go to church and nobody will say anything. I have seen this in the Lord's Recovery. Often the woman has some professional standing and wants to keep her name. Nobody says a word about it. But they receive Witness Lee's teaching as if it was valid. It is not.

2. I asked the Lord's Recovery church where I met, why they had to take a name and register with the government as a 403(c) organisation. They said, "We have to". Huh? No you don't - where in the NT does it say that you have to register with the government? Talk about Pergamos - married to the world! Why condemn others if you do it?

3. The irony with the Lord's Recovery is the names that sprout so easily there. Christians on Campus, Affirmation and Critique, Lord's Move to Europe, Living Stream Ministry, Continuing Steadfastly, Bibles for America (and Russia and Germany &c), Defense and Confirmation Project, Full-Time Training Centres and so forth. Every 7 or 8 months you'd see a new name come out... some new ancillary named and publicly-registered non-profit entity would appear. "But it's not the church".