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Originally Posted by Terry
They do and they don't. In the mind of LSMers, only local churches taking LSM publications are legitimate churches. All other churches are illegitimate. One local churches that disassociated with LSM in 1986 still takes the name of the Church in ____. When I was meeting with the Church in Bellevue, I had asked an elder what about the Church in _____? I was told they're a rebel church.
Another symptom of a bigger problem is an inability to receive questions. A brother may ask a question that is too exposing and he'll be told, "it's better you meet somewhere else."
It may be more correct to say Local Churches perceive themselves as the expression of the Church in that city (meeting as the Church in ____) while all others Christian churches in that city are meeting in division.
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Which I maintain it's a warped implementation of Neeistic localism.