My Local Church Experience - And My Testimony

[DistantStar]

Originally Posted by aron

There's a "warning letter" to the LSM churches in South Africa about the Brasilian christians formerly associated with LSM, who had been "quarantined", i.e. excommunicated.

There is a lot of things in this letter which I find extremely hypocritical and condescending.

Quote (p.2): The Church in Pretoria began to meet in the mid-1970s as the first church in South Africa.

This. This. This is what is wrong with them. By that statement they mark all the missionaries to South Africa in 500 years as being false. By this statement they conclude that all other churches here are false. For them, hundreds of churches here throughout the centuries have been misled at best.

This is inexcusable.

Also unsurprising that they used a footnote in the Recovery Version as proof for the other group's supposed heresy.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by DistantStar

By this statement they conclude that all other churches here are false.

That's accurate. That's their mindset. All other churches are in division except them. Yet a common denominator in LC history 1950's to present is division. With Witness Lee, if you aren't here for Witness Lee and his ministry, you might as well not be here. What does that tell you? The basis for fellowship in any local church is Witness Lee's ministry. It's considered an essential item of faith. Disagree with my words? Let's ask ANY local church to drop the ministry publications and just take the Bible and see how far that goes.