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Originally Posted by Cal
It's the only thing that makes sense. The blessing came due to the devotion of the people. The leaders including Lee just took credit for it. No doubt some general ideas pointed us in the right direction (Spirit/spirit, contacting the Lord, practical church, devotion), but WL's esoterica were really not the reason and became the problem.
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Every couple weeks I hear of some other Christian teacher that is reputed to have sinned or promoted some type of error. This is just the nature of our exitance on this planet at this time. We know that we carry the flesh, and are all capable of its litany of manifested problems. If we dig deep enough, any teacher can be shown to have shortcomings in either their life or teachings or both. Nothing should surprise us in that respect . . . nothing.
And of course, we point out the error, but we really should not be that surprised. Then we are called to forgive them . . . as hard as that may seem, the Lord is emphatic that we forgive.
Any teacher is prone to say and teach things in error . . . any of them (again, because of the flesh and overall human limitations). Now we may judge that certain ministering ones are better, but how accurate are our judgements, considering we carry the influence of the same flesh? We must admit that at the end of the day, we are all just sheep! Some sheep may think they're better, and smarter (even thinking they're not sheep), but that's how the Lord describes all of us.
So I think it's a stretch to say the leaders of the LC were not responsible for ANY of the blessing we enjoyed back then. They were members of the body like the rest of us. Prone to errors? Sure, and some unfortunate big ones which harmed the body. But it's up to us to rightly divide what was according to sound teaching and what wasn't, just like any ministry.