If you were in Scottsdale would you take the Table..

[Indiana]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

I was hoping for more answers to this thread (thanks to those who did answer), so I want to direct this question to current LC saints: Would you take the table with us here in Scottsdale, since our legal name is "The Church in Scottsdale" and why or why not?

FYI - I know of a brother who gathers with us here in Scottsdale, whose father routinely meets with the LC in another state. When his father visits here he will come to gatherings, but he will not take the table with us. I think the reason he stated was something about "violating the oneness." I'm hoping someone could explain further what this means, as it doesn't make sense to me . . .

You asked the ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION about who would take the table with you in Scottsdale. It's NOT those who chose to "range themselves around a gifted leader" in a universal movement for oneness with a man and a ministry. Witness Lee became a factor of oneness and of division in the churches; and that brother's father was swept away with them to the ground they hold today. It is a special ground, but not the Body ground, which they once had when blessings did abound.

Agreement to follow Witness Lee in the New Way

"Dear Brother Lee. After hearing your fellowship in this elders’ training, we all agree to have a new start in the Lord’s recovery. For this, we all agree to be in one accord and to carry out this new move of the Lord solely through prayer, the Spirit, and the Word. We further agree to practice the recovery one in: teaching, practice, thinking, speaking, essence, appearance, and expression.

We repudiate all differences among the churches, and all indifference toward the ministry office, and the other churches. We agree that the church in our place be identical with all the local churches throughout the earth.

We also agree to follow your leading as the one who has brought us God’s New Testament economy and has led us into its practice. We agree that this leading is indispensable to our oneness and acknowledge the one trumpet in the Lord’s ministry and the one wise
master builder among us...." (1986 letter from 417 elders, intl elders' conf.)