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Originally Posted by ACuriousFellow
At the start of each college semester, they would expect many new, young freshmen to join as well as a few older college students who were nonetheless new to The Lord's Recovery. As such, they would transition to having "porch meetings" for a while in which they instructed the saints not to talk about Witness Lee, tone down the "calling" and "pray-reading" and loud "amens" if possible, and focus on just making the new ones feel comfortable and loved. The reason for this was to not scare the new ones away. Since many people have criticized Lee in the past, they said, it would be good to not yet mention him or his teachings so much and make people suspicious or uncomfortable.
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Deceptive and far from transparency. Goes back to my earlier comment, if one truly believes "The Recovery" is God's Move on the Earth, why would not want to be anything but transparent?
Your quote ACuriousFellow applies as much to Memorial meetings as much as college age gatherings. It's been over 8 years since my uncle passed away, but I distinctly remember different brothers desperately trying not to utter the words "Brother Lee" at my uncle's memorial meeting. I knew they wanted to but refrained. I'm sure in part due to non-LC visitors being in attendance.