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Originally Posted by Ohio
Better take your politics to Alt-Views. Glad to discuss your theories there. And most posters are liberals too.
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Ohio, I'd rather not get into the politics but I also understand it's impossible to avoid when discussing the Local Churches ...especially in the state that they're currently in. What I mean by that is the divide that's a result of the '06 quarantines has made the institution more of a political machine than a religious one. This actually started with Nee in China it seems but has now been completely realized in the conflict between LSM and GLA. How ironic that the Local Church's worse enemies would be from amongst their own...
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Originally Posted by Ohio
I had more than a few meetings with TC, and your opinions of TC never match reality.
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It doesn't matter if you've met him a hundred times or no times at all. You'll never know the man through personal interactions. It's simply the culture of the Local Churches...keep everyone at a comfortable distance. Come to think of it, through all the dissociative practices taught in the LC's, its leadership may even struggle with knowing who they really are...
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Originally Posted by Ohio
Here's a far more simplistic and accurate assessment of TC: WL Good, Blendeds Bad.
TC saw WL as his own "spiritual father," and all of his mistakes were "none of my business." Some of the Blendeds, however, TC used to call "those five little boys."
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If WL was TC's "spiritual father", my question is; what kind of father cuts his own son out from thier rightful inheritance? Even then, being in control of a dead religious institution isn't much of an inhereitance at all. It's what I wished those effected by the quarantines would realize so they can all move past the pain.
It's as if Lee knew exactly what needed to be done before his passing (by instituting the Blended Brothers) in order for the division that was such an integral part of his leadership to continue on from beyond the grave. Perhaps subconsciously he knew if members of the local churches actually disassociated themselves from himself and Watchman Nee, and in turn reconciled themselves back to Christ, both their legacies would dissolve in the process.
Division is what's actually keeping the Local Churches "alive" so to speak...