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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
And after having said all this...if I have misunderstood your pondering and have responded in a way that is far off track, I'm sorry. Just let me know with some clarification and I'll try again  . |
Actually, that was not what I was talking about. But if I had, then I would agree with you.
I was noting that back in 1977, what on earth could they have called the failure (or whatever word) of one of them if they knew nothing about his propensity to roam in the way that he may have before (unknown) and ultimately did.
I have concluded that if something you (generically, those of you proposing this "new thing") said caused Ben to weep so strongly, and got him openly interested in the proposal, then the other elders might arguably have "one of them" who had slipped out of the "toe-the-Lee-line-and-nothing-else" fellowship. That would be a great failure in their mind. It wasn't until this little discussion that I figured out what it was they were talking about.
Since Ben was in Arlington so quickly after that, it makes you wonder whether that was already under way or they really do control things so completely with respect to the "truly committed." (I think they should all be committed — truly.
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