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Originally Posted by Ohio
Not sure what part of that horribly ugly “divorce” between Anaheim and Cleveland leaders you would like to discuss here.
After thoroughly studying the whole situation with an insider’s viewpoint, I concluded that it was simply a power struggle for the leadership of the Recovery movement. It had been brewing for decades ready to erupt after WL passed.
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To summarize, after decades of abject servility to Witness Lee, Titus Chu refused to do the same with the new Anaheim Overlords, aka the Blendeds. The pressing question became, to whom do you kowtow - to Anaheim or to Cleveland? This issue was forced upon the Recovery assemblies in the Great Lakes region: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Canada. Then followed what post #1 calls the "Titus Chu LC split".
The split wasn't over theology, but allegiance. But the split over allegiance was inculcated by the theology - implicit in every line of WL teaching, and often explicitly stated, was the notion of obedience to "deputy authority". When WL died, that teaching caused Dong and Chu to set themselves apart. They could not lose face to some blended bureaucrat in Anaheim.