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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
I'm reading in Bill Mallon's notes (linked to on the "Bill Mallon's Passing" thread) and just read where WL said (in 77) he determined in 1963 that he had to take the full burden for the ministry here. That might have been fine for a short time, but others perhaps should have come to the forefront to teach, etc. Of course, WL probably didn't allow that. If it had happened, all of the pride of everything being so centered in one man might not have arisen so strongly, resulting in what the LC is today (Laodicea).
And, as WL said near the end, the emphasis of the ministry was skewed so as not to include love. God's eternal purpose is wonderful, but men telling it without love becomes something of a dead law which just promotes fear and control.
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There were lots of brothers who were speaking in the 80's. I get the impression that Lee was training a lot behind the scenes. Even from some old videos you get the impression that he was constantly trying to train, even in his non-training messages he would quiz and ask certain brothers to stand up to give answers etc. The ones who are speaking now actually I don't think were speaking that much in the 80's. But there were brothers who went around like the blendeds do today. They just were different brothers back then
It's sad that so much glorification of Lee has gone on over the decades. He should have done a lot more to squash that. And it's possible a lot of the speaking brothers now propped him up so much as a way to indirectly glorify themselves. Even if they weren't aware of how fleshly that is, or maybe they were who knows
The only humble speaking brother I can think of today that speaks well is Ricky Acosta. I don't sense any ambition in him at all and he has the gift of speaking. He's from Spokane (well at least he lived in Spokane for many years). There were quite a few very spiritual people in that locality. And they shared the same spirit of humbleness that he has. It was a locality full of the spirit. And my mom used to say that Brother Lee once said that Spokane has 'the two spirits,' which are the human spirit and the holy spirit. Which apparently is a pretty high compliment, although it would be nice if all localities were like that. But I was in Spokane for a long enough time to know that it was not Laodicea when I was there. I experienced Laodicea when I moved to Western Washington, along with a lot of clergy-laity behavior. The clergy-laity behavior seems to come when the leading brothers enjoy their position in the church and feel like it's some kind of honor and rank that's higher than others, and something to successfully gain as opposed to a function that comes out of the growth in life. It seems that naturally pride, and the natural man would be involved in that
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