On January 9, 2007, a number of evangelical Christian scholars and ministry leaders published “An Open Letter to the Leadership of Living Stream Ministry and the ‘Local Churches’” online.
Here we respectfully offer an initial, brief response to the open letter. (A longer response is forthcoming.) At the end we also provide a link to the open letter.
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“We commend the signers of the open letter for their concern for the truth of the gospel, and we invite them or any others to join us in genuine and substantive dialogue concerning the great truths of the faith and particularly our understanding thereof.”
[Read the full response here]
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“Living Stream Ministry and the ‘local churches’ (also known as The Lord’s Recovery), both founded by the late Witness Lee, have been involved for decades in legal and theological controversies with noted Christian institutions and leaders. In light of this history of litigation and conflict, we the undersigned make this public appeal.”
from “An Open Letter...”
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