afazio - Spiritual Authority

[Drake]

These first three points are similar. I'll start with them.

Originally Posted by Trapped

1. The title of the document is "Publication Work IN THE LORD'S RECOVERY". If it is simply supposed to be stating what LSM will publish, it should be titled "LSM's Publication Work". Easy.

Trapped, this is an argument of semantics. We know who authored the document. They don't need to add their name in the title. I see no infraction in the title... and if there were it doesn't even rise to the level of the crime of spitting on the sidewalk.

Originally Posted by Trapped

2. The One Pub is signed by "the blended co-workers in the Lord's recovery". If it is simply about what LSM will publish, why wasn't it signed by LSM, rather than by a group who purport to represent and direct the entire Lord's recovery?

Because there is very little distinction? Or if there is a distinction it is the one publishes and distributes the ministry and the other(s) references that ministry in their distinctive ministries. There are many parts of the ministry covering different aspects. LSM the publishing arm and the trainings, DCP, Bibles for America, Bibles for "country", Affirmation & Critique, Lord's Move in Europe, Life-studyof the Bible broadcast, etc. and the serving ones sometimes but not always overlap in some of those aspects.

You're trying to stovepipe the whole. Serving ones could be be involved in different aspects in some way several times a year. To use a secular analogy its more like a university and the different aspects are the colleges. The people who manage the university can be involved in different colleges but all are under the same policies and practices of the university. The co-workers, no matter their specialty all agree on the need for one publication and they use that as a common touchstone from which to execute their individual function.

That makes perfect sense. Why wouldn't it work that way?

Originally Posted by Trapped

3. How do you interpret the latter half of the very first sentence of One Pub: "...we have long realized that there should be one publication among us." What on earth is that saying? Please explain. Who is "we" and who is "us"? LSM hasn't been mentioned yet in the document by this point, and the signers are not "LSM", so who is we and us?

At minimum the "we" and "us" are the co-workers the signatories to the document. However, if you asked the brothers and sisters in the local churches if they hold the same sentiment I am pretty sure that the majority would agree. Yet, technically speaking the "we and "us" must refer to the co-workers who are carrying out the ministry and signed the document.

Thanks
Drake