[ACuriousFellow]

It should be noted that this grand fear of "germs" and "rebellion" arose in the 1980s, which was a time in the history of The Lord's Recovery where a heavy emphasis was placed on a centralized publication source for all of the Local Churches in The Lord's Recovery for the sake of conformity. Several concerns arose from the dissonance that occurred between the concepts publicly touted in The Lord's Recovery in which hierarchy and leadership were denounced and the presence and pressure of Living Stream Ministry, a publishing company established by Lee and headed by his son, Phillip Lee. The dogmatic approach to disseminating and reinforcing Lee's teachings within the Local Churches disturbed many, including those like Steve Isitt and John Ingalls who personally felt like they owed much of their spiritual growth to Witness Lee.

Steve Isitt authored several books related to these matters and the concerns that arose among the churches. These include:
1. The Rosemead Rebellion
2. In the Wake of the New Way: The Costly Movement of a Man and a Ministry
3. Hiding History in the Nee and Lee Eras of The Lord's Recovery

John Ingalls also wrote on these matters, authoring a fairly well-known book in this forum: Speaking the Truth in Love.

You can see the heartache and conflict within the accounts of both of these brothers. It is no secret that many of us here feel that Lee was rotten from the very start, but these brothers make it clear that they gained much light and life with their brothers and sisters at the beginning of this movement. It is telling that ones such as these who gave Lee all the benefit of the doubt still found themselves heartbroken and disillusioned by the slow death they were witnessing in the churches of The Lord's Recovery and the authoritarianism that arose within the ranks of its leadership, all of it centered within their publishing powerhouse that is still in operation today controlling all the official publications of The Lord's Recovery under their now decades-old "One Publication" mandate.