The Unique Move of God

[Cal]

Originally Posted by Drake

LSM and the local churches will decide for themselves. As do Baptists, Pentecostals, Catholics, and every other group that stands for a certain set of beliefs. Any group that does not filter out teachings that do not align with their calling or mission has no purpose for existing.

I totally get your point and have made it myself here in the past. What you are missing is that the LCM goes a step further (to say the least) and claims to be "THE unique move of God" in exclusion of all others, and claims all other moves are just "movements of men." Leaving aside for a moment that that they have no possible way of knowing such a thing for sure, in this day and age every group should have by now realized from history and conscience that such claims are arrogant, short-sighted and ultimately divisive.

The LCM doesn't just say "if you want to be part of us you'll do things our way," That much is reasonable. No, they go on to say "and if you don't do that you are outside of God's unique move." That is utterly unreasonable. And that goes for any subset of the Church that says that.

That is the part that makes all their insistence on conformity a damaging travesty. Sure, if I go to work for a company I need to conform to its way of doing things. But if that company claims to be the only place to work and tries to impart the fear of leaving then there is something very rotten at its core. That's the problem with the LCM.

The LCM is not the only group to embrace this error. But to my view no group embraces it as tightly and willingly and to greater damage than the LCM does.