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Originally Posted by zeek
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The suppression of freedom of thought and expression preached and practiced in the so-called Lord’s Recovery was the primary reason I chose to leave.
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As a corollary to your point above
zeek, seeing how we advertised ourselves as "local churches," one of the reasons why I left was because the local eldership had little freedom of thought and expression to influence the church under their care. Headquarters grew in size, power, and scope far beyond the boundaries of scripture.
Over time, the real shepherds, evangelists, and teachers in the LC were expelled or marginalized, and their replacements were mere franchise lackeys. A fake authoritarian "oneness of the body" was deemed far more paramount to their survival than the actual liberty of the Spirit.