God's economy vs Deputy authority

[aron]

Originally Posted by Terry

If there's an aura of elitism, it's elitist when others do it. In the LC, it's not elitist when you're the remnant.

Originally Posted by LSM Hymns

No more trying something else,
Or thinking that there’s something more;
No more hoping “someday,”
’Cause today I have the best.

Is that hymn referring to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, or the local church life on the local ground, or the ministry of the age with the high peak vision, or all three? Are they essentially synonymous here, and blended into a yummy LC smoothie - Today I have the best? Not merely the "low gospel" of faith in Jesus Christ, but a revelation of Christ and the church, and even better, Christ and the Church as presented by God's oracle of the current age, and by the seer himself of the divine revelation? Why settle for anything else? Why settle for mere Christianity when you can get God's best?

We have books, magazines, posters, calenders, coffee mugs, CDs, DVDs, online streaming, video training - what do you want? Step right up, folks, the ministry of the age for merely a dollar!

Originally Posted by Terry

Kind of sounds like the campus work you might find supported by the LC.

Yes it does, doesn't it? And compare that to the 'normal campus work' shown in the pages of the NT. There we see a brother being led, not by close operational control of the minister of the age, but by an angel (Acts 8:26), and then the Holy Spirit (8:29) to preach the gospel to an open vessel. Upon confession and baptism, Philip didn't tell the convert to report to Headquarters for training, but let him go, and 2,000 years later, there's still a church in Ethiopia! For two millenia there has remained a bastion of Christian testimony in a sea of Islam and animism. Incredible.