What should I be looking for in a church?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

I and two others were given a week to stand up and repent before the whole assembly, or be excommunicated. I felt I had nothing to repent of.

A week goes by and the elders show up at my door. They had my wife leave, sat around me, and told me what I had to do to remain the LC.

But it was a demand that was so far out there that it was impossible for me to do.

I have never seen an LSM quarantine for cases like I Cor 5.9-13, Titus 3.10-11, or II John 10 in the New Testament. Oh sure, the Quarantiners used some scripture verses, but none of it fit the actual situation. Cutting through all of their outrageous claims, the unique reason for being quarantined by LSM and its operatives is by adhering to the Word of God rather than the teachings and practices of Witness Lee. All of these brothers had to weigh the consequences of obeying God or man. (please read Acts 4.19, 5.29)

Each case of quarantine by LSM was a copy-cat exercise of II Thess. 3.14, "And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark this one that you may not associate with him, in order that he may be put to shame." This all sounds "legitimate" until you consider that copy editors at an Anaheim book publisher are not Apostle Paul, and never possessed apostolic authority to pen the epistles. Obeying the scripture and disobeying LSM's petty decrees is about as serious as not eating desert. Regardless of how far-fetched LSM's claims were, they still never practiced the subsequent verse written by Paul in II Thess 3.15, "And do not consider him an enemy, but admonish him as a brother."