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Originally Posted by JJ
Great description of what the LC was like for me too, starting from 1978 when I was recruited in Fresno, CA. There never was a time that Lee and his ministry wasn’t dominant. My theory is because the whole thing was like a Ponzi scheme from the beginning, even back before Nee inherited the stinking system from others, became top dog, and Lee took it to even greater lengths.
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Like Don Rutledge, Cal, and many other “old timers I have to be fair and report that many times in my earlier days in TLR there were many times when the blessing of the Holy Spirit poured out on us both in meetings and less formal “doing life together” and serving times. So, it became infuriatingly frustrating to try to figure out why that happened along with so many other strange and bad things. Thus we “sit around here” and ask “how did we get here, and where do we go from here now that the Lord is leading us elsewhere?”
I’m convinced that times of blessing were related to the fact that often we were turning our hearts to the Lord, reading and praying with God’s word, believing it, and acting on it. Conversely, the strange and bad things were related to departing from that.