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The local churches and the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee have been the subject of controversy in two major areas over the past fifty years. To a large extent these controversies stem from the rapid increase and spread of the local churches in the United States in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The local churches are a Christian group which was started in China in the 1920s and have spread globally. The basic organizing principle of the local churches is that there should be only one Christian church in each city, [1] a principle that was first articulated by Watchman Nee in a 1926 exposition of the seven churches in Asia in Revelation 1:11. [2]
In 2018 over 800 protesters gathered and marched to the LDS Church headquarters to deliver a petition with over 55,000 signatures asking for an end to semiannual, closed-door, one-on-one interviews between adult male local church leaders and children and teens during which many members have been asked about their sexual behaviors and thoughts ...
Two churches withcongregations scattered across Southern California covered up sexual abuse of children as young as 3 years old and financially exploited church members, according to multiple ...
[4] A part of that cost was the departure of 1,900 churches from the convention, which broke away in 1990 to form the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a moderate Baptist group which affirms women in ordained ministry and emphasizes the Baptist principles of the autonomy of the local church, the priesthood of all believers, and soul liberty.
The church said that attendees from 38 states and 42 countries were present April 12 and April 13 at Springfield's Great Southern Bank Arena. ... who has courted controversy in the past. "That man ...
The dispute between the Local Church and SCP escalated into a lawsuit for defamation that was filed in Oakland, California in December 1980 and known as Lee et al. v. Duddy et al. [ 13 ] According to Bill Squires, the four and a half years of pre-trial preparations and depositions involved expenditure that brought SCP into legal debt with their ...
Removing the controversies that surround the Local Church from the main article actually injects bias into the main article rather than remove such bias. Additionally, there is a whole sentence in the "Summary of allegations against the Local Churches" section that is so riddled with parenthetical comments in such a prejudicial way as to ...