One Publication
In 2005, the blending co-workers in the Lord's Recovery issued a statement designating LSM as the one publisher for the local churches as a means of preserving the integrity of the New Testament ministry of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee, which is "crucial for the practical oneness among the local churches". In response, there are some who have questioned the biblical validity of LSM's "practical oneness" approach.
In 2006, Titus Chu and his supporters, including many churches in the Great Lakes region of the US and Canada, were removed from fellowship ("quarantined") for refusing to adhere to LSM's one publication policy.
In 2009, Dong Yu Lan and his supporters, including many churches in Brazil and throughout South America, were also quarantined for not submitting to one publication.
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“An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.”
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