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Originally Posted by gr8ful
To be fair, I was in the LC from before the New Way until after 2015 and never heard a leading one in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, California, Oregon, Washington, Canada, the Southeast US, mid-Atlantic seaboard say that salvation is only in the LC or by following WL/LSM. Nor have a read a message transcript of official publication stating this.
I did hear some excited members say that leaving the meetings would result in ruin and also heard Blended Brothers / WL says those who leave or oppose the LC/LSM Ministry end up badly. That's bad enough to be abusive control. Also heard that those who leave won't be overcomers and will be subject to 1000 years outer darkness; this functionally may be the same as "the fear of hell and damnation" to people, but technically is different.
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I also cannot say that I heard that precise quote. But I was born and raised in Dallas, became associated with the LRC in early 73 (last year of high school), and left 14.5 years later as the New Way was getting underway. And in that time, the one who became president of the LSM did effectively say that very thing in at least one meeting in Dallas.
Of course, local speaking of the local leadership was not generally recorded and sent out at the time. (Maybe some cassettes made available locally for those who missed a meeting, but unlikely cataloged for posterity.) Only Lee or others sent from LA/Anaheim to hold conferences would have been recorded. So there is no solid evidence of precisely what was said and even exactly when it was, though I do have a visual memory of it being in what was referred to as the "little hall" rather than the "big hall." But even that does not define the time frame since strictly local meetings sometimes continued in the little hall even after the big hall was completed.