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Originally Posted by aron
The difference between LC and EL is the degree that practices are taken, but the DNA is the same.
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In both the EL and LC the concept is put forth, and accepted by adherents, that the age has turned. That's why Christian hymns get celebrated publicly in LC meetings, up to the advent of Nee. When Nee arrived on the scene, two thousand years of Christian plurality was subsumed, finished. And this person-centric church was then made explicit when Lee died. I was there when the Blended from Anaheim passed thru, and solemnly told us that the age had turned. No Bible verses were asked for and none was offered. Witness Lee had died, and the age had turned, and that was that. An era of human history was over, and another had begun. Henceforth, no more spiritual giants would roam the earth.
Something didn't feel right but my conscience was covered by years of repetitive shouting, and my brain pickled by ministry inculcation, and I let it in passively. One didn't challenge the Anaheimians after all. Yes it did seem a bit odd, but there was odd stuff in the LC, there's odd stuff everywhere. We were 'God's peculiar people' after all! So I just shrugged it off. Today, the open, heretical blatancy of LC spinoff EL cues to both groups being untethered from objective human reason, unhinged from the Bible and divorced from Christian ethos. In some ways the LC is even more sinister because it's less obvious. But when Jo Casteel reported deceptive recruiting practices in Tennessee that was an eye-opener. Because that's the bread-and-butter of EL recruiting.