A Word of Love

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by Terry

Some may read this and see Witness Lee speaking to a brother. I read this and this is also a word to the local churches affiliated with LSM. When churches and it's leadership make the basis for fellowship through LSM publications, they cut themselves off from the Body of Christ. They separate themselves. It was very east for Witness Lee to speak what he did. Witness Lee had a ministry he was speaking. Saints at the local church level were received and cut off based if they were of Lee. For debate sake, suppose Witness Lee was speaking of Bill Freeman and Scottsdale. How did it come to be they ended in Scottsdale?
I say they did not feel comfortable re-speaking Lee's ministry and wanted to testifty according to their Experience of Christ in their daily life. This was a time of Us versus Them. Either you're for Lee's ministry or you're against it. There was no middle ground. Since they could not take the New Way, these ones left.
Maybe with these ones their feeling for their locality, to have fellowship with LSM localities, their receiving would need to be based on taking LSM publications. Only then could there be fellowship between LSM local churches and non-LSM local churches.
What is the sense today? Could the saints meeting in Scottsdale have fellowship with the Church in Phoenix? Could the saints meeting in Raleigh and Durham in North Carolina have fellowship with the Church in Charlotte? Could Westminster Church Assembly have fellowship with the Church in Anaheim and other Orange County localities? Could the Church in Moses Lake have fellowship with the Churches in Spokane, Richland, Ephrata, Bellevue, Seattle, etc? With the Lord, it is possible.

This is the crux of the other thread on Apostles. WL has to portray himself as "The Apostle", if he is merely a minister of the word this kind of speaking would be outrageous.

The biggest fear then to the LRC and LSM is that others would rise up to minister as well, because once that happens you can no longer go around with this "deputy authority" teaching. This actually supports Igzy's thesis that the authority of the apostles is no longer around. Again, I would use my analogy to pioneer species, the apostles come in and create an environment for the church to thrive in, but an environment that the apostles are no longer necessary.

This is also the crux of the argument that the LRC is a cult. The only way to say that the LRC is not a cult is if you accept this whole "The Apostle" teaching and all the baggage that comes with it. Likewise, if you agree that this teaching is cultic you can also see that it keeps all the members in bondage, they have to be in submission to the "MoTA". So the function of the members in the LRC is stunted.