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Originally Posted by Trapped
Our work today is to build up the home meetings, teach the truth, and spread the gospel. In other words, it is to beget, nourish, and teach. These are things that are absolutely contrary to what Christianity is doing.
-Crucial Words of Leading in the Lord's Recovery, Bk 1
They are, and have been for some time......deluded and self-deceived.
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Who knows how the Lord will do His ekklesia building in the last days!? It could be that there will be a strong movement in home meetings, where there is no denominational or Catholic influence. But this could certainly happen with no LC influence either! A couple brothers I know are quite into promoting the home meeting thing, and the best I can tell, they know nothing of each other! This shows how independent home meeting can be. Just ask Henry Hon, who was an elder in the California Bay Area for many, many years. His advocacy and practice of the home meetings got him kicked-out of the LC. My understanding is that basically LC leadership (Blendeds?) told him the meetings were too independant and were influenced too much by non-LC teachings, fellowship and practices. They pressured Henry to conform, and when he wouldn't, he was forced out.
Home meetings really fly under the radar. In this time of the Covid thing, many established churches aren't gathering, so I suspect there is probably a pretty good increase in believers meeting house to house now. But who knows where or how many? That's because it's kinda like trying to see the wind! Therefore, I don't think the LC should think, in any way, that they have a lock on home gatherings or can control it.