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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
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.
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A friend of mine's family ran a sheep ranch. He said sheep are the dumbest animals on the planet. He said they are born looking for a place to die. This irony should not be lost on us.
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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.
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I agree and I meant to imply that. Certainly leaders, including Lee, helped some. But what the LR would have us think is that it was the "uniqueness" Lee that made it happen.
I would say it was the unusually strong devotion of the whole movement that made it happen. The LR made clear that it did not want to be just another Christian church. That push increased devotion, which increased results. But there is a dark side to that as well, which we saw and experienced. Once you start believing your own PR, you're done.
But you're right, everyone is flawed. And everyone is blessed. If we could just keep it at that the Church overall would do much better.