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Old 04-30-2021, 05:11 AM   #9
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Default Re: The 1987 High School Training In Irving 8-17-87

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Originally Posted by PriestlyScribe View Post
The famed "G-MAN Performance" begins at 1hr 15min
https://youtu.be/Q1087V4MiVw
In the G-Man Performance, watching them parade with Living Stream Ministry banners, and

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Originally Posted by PriestlyScribe View Post
FTTT Int. Young People Summer Conference | Graduation Ceremony | Aug 2, 1987
Video link - https://youtu.be/1oqk-nkfaoA
At the graduation ceremony, watching them give speeches in front of an 8 foot tall Living Stream Ministry logo, all with Living Stream Ministry baseball caps and patches on their blazers, and then consider the LSM statement on "Shepherding Words"

https://shepherdingwords.com/the-rel...ocal-churches/

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"LSM was established as a Levitical service to publish the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee...

LSM does not oversee the churches or any of their affairs. Neither does LSM direct the service of the co-workers. Some have persisted in accusing LSM of controlling the local churches. The accusation is absurd. Each local church answers directly to the Lord and is under the oversight of local brothers. It is up to these brothers whether and to what degree the church will use LSM materials or participate in LSM-sponsored gatherings. LSM has no organizational, administrative, or financial control over the churches."
But do other ministries have people to carry banners around with their logo, to plaster the logo on themselves? Can you imagine going to a Joyce Meyer conference of a Billy Graham conference or a youth group training somewhere and everyone had a logo on their forehead? It would look creepy, no?

The Shepherding Words says there's this baseless, satanic accusation that LSM controls people. But if we look at the videos that LSM took of their conferences and trainings, it's pretty obvious to most of the rest of us where this viewpoint came from. And when the public sees this, and then reads RecV footnotes: "All churches must be exactly identical, no differences whatever", what are most people going to think?
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