localchurchesfaq.org

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Originally Posted by UntoHim

Basically, this website is an updated/expanded rehash of the 1978 pamphlet entitled "Beliefs and Practices of The Local Churches". That pamphlet was published around the time of the books The Mind Benders and The God-Men came out. It really wasn't much of an in depth response as much as it was a little book of Local Church talking points.

The original pamphlet "Beliefs and Practices of The Local Churches" has been reproduced on contendingforthefaith.org

One of the answers in the "Questions" part of this pamphlet always struck me as extremely disingenuous, and even deceptive.

The question is: Who is your leader?
The answer:
Our unique leader is Christ. We have no official, permanent, organized human leadership. Furthermore, there is no hierarchy of any kind and no worldwide leader. We regard no person as infallible, and we do not follow anyone blindly. On the contrary, we follow only those whose teaching and practice is in accordance with the truth of God’s Word.

Someone needs to tell the Blended Brothers that there should be "no official, permanent, organized human leadership"
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During the quarantines these booklets were passed out to all the Midwest saints. Supposedly this was our "blueprint" for the practice of the church life. It exposed much hypocrisy, since what we were doing bore no relationship to our prescriptive "handbook."