Cookie cutter web sites

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http://www.churchinmiddleborough.org/history/index.html

If you look at local church [sic] web sites, some are just shells, without information on the pages, like the "history of the Middleborough church" above. It looks like they were told to do this, and did it without much enthusiasm or effort. The clearinghouse web site "blended body" lists well over a hundred of them, most not touched in the decades since they were put up by LSM directives. Doesn't look local at all.

https://www.blendedbody.com/CIBwebsi...html/Links.htm

You can also find them individually by googling keywords in their bylines: "lovers of Jesus affiliated with the ministries of watchman nee witness lee" and there they are, leftovers from the initial push to get Witness Lee's name on the internet. Cookie cutter web sites, most of them long since given up. And didn't anyone blanch at the 'affiliated with' part? It's as local as a McDonalds franchise.

The church in XXXXX warmly welcomes you. We are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who have personally received Him as our Savior. He is the most excellent and enjoyable Person. We love Him and endeavor to give Him the first place in all things. We rejoice to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, born again of the Father’s divine life, and filled with the Holy Spirit.

We highly treasure the Holy Bible as God’s revelation of Himself and of His eternal purpose. We hold the common faith which is revealed in the Bible and is common to all genuine believers.

As is true of all believers in Christ, we are members of His one Body, the church. In order to practice the oneness of the Body with all the Christians in XXXXX, we meet as the church in XXXXX. We are in fellowship with over 2,000 local churches worldwide to express the one Body of Christ.

Any church that hasn't done anything on its website in 20+ years might want to think about the testimony that gives: indifference, apathy, ennui.