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Originally Posted by Ohio
After I read John Ingall’s account of events, I had the conviction within that he was speaking the truth, fairly and accurately. Reading the old Bereans forum, I was shocked at the accumulated and covered up corruption surrounding WL and his two sons, and lost all respect for LSM in general, including the Blendeds.
I have much more respect for TC, his teaching and character, but not the way he treats other brothers. Authority has gone to his head. Over the years I had migrated twice to start new LC’s in new cities. Then I would watch how TC would beat up our elders, thru public shaming and humiliation, in order to bring them under absolute submission. Supposedly this practice, part of the so-called “recovery” handed down by Barber, Née, and Lee, was a scriptural pattern, yet not one verse supports this. Every brother was expendable except for TC. I also was subject to abuses on a local level. I may have stayed if any of these three (national, regional, local) was upright, and treated people respectfully as servants of the Lord.
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Yeah I know virtually nothing about TC, except that I once saw him on a video (maybe on Youtube) many years ago and his expression and demeaner did not at all look righteous. He had the vibe of a fox or a really corrupt car salesman. And I think I saw one of his lackies speaking in a meeting and he as well had a dark demeanor about him. That's all I really know about TC
I'm wondering if his rebellion is similar to Bill Freeman's rebellion in Moses Lake. We were always told it was because of ambition for position and because these big brothers were rebels and they were running their locality independently of LSM (but I thought each locality has its own autonomy?). Maybe it was for position and power, but also maybe they smelled blood in the water due to Lee's major failures. Similar to how king David's monarchy was thrown into chaos after his major sins, and how his trusted men who were by his side in war had turned on him after his major failures. But then also it makes you wonder why was Lee ever in that position in the first place? Why was he in the position of a king and why was he treated like a king in all the churches? I think he just reveled in the glory of that position and he really didn't do much that I saw to quell it. I mean compare that to Paul's life or Jesus's life. They were always suffering, always on the move, never seeking celebrity status, never reveling in their accomplishments, never boasting from pride or the flesh, always seeking out the lowly, always helping and healing, always ready to live Christ and spread the gospel, always humble and lowly in their demeanor and actions, and actively shooting down any attempts to crown them by their followers. Yet we see pretty much practically the opposite behavior with how the LC revers and uplifts Nee and Lee
Granted Lee was the benefactor of the LC and he was the sole owner of the LSM business, and he was the founder probably of every church in the Philippines and the U.S. But I've heard him say in his own books "The churches don't belong to me, they belong to the Lord." Just seems like a lot of duplicity and say one thing do another type behavior
I remember Ed Marks told a story once about one time when he went to brother Lee's house and somehow the conversation between he and Lee ended up in Ed saying something along the lines of "We aren't the right type of people," and Lee saying "If we were the right people the Lord would be back already." Which knowing what I know now absolutely hits differently then it did then