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Originally Posted by Ohio
What does that even mean?
What is it to "load our testimonies?"
What is so obnoxious about steering the "flow?"
How did you waste your time on "amateur acting?"
Can you speak this in the plainest of terms what has upset you so much?
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The elders would try to manufacture excitement, similar to how Madison avenue works now. So they had a definite agenda not only in the message but also in the testimonies. So these brothers would get up and gesticulate and pretend to be all excited about some WL footnote. One brother like this and he is a nut, so they would get 3 or 4. Now EM was the expert at this, but because of the obscure quotes he would come up with you knew he had been told ahead of time what the message was on. Likewise KR would get up and share a second message so you know he was given a heads up. No one else but these few brothers were given a heads up because it gave them an edge at standing up. Second, since these brothers were given 5 minutes in a testimony and others would be shut down after 1 minute and because they would only have 30 minutes of testimonies it gave the elders almost complete control over the testimonies and therefore the testimony was in danger of being a sham. In Houston there were definitely two camps when it came to testimonies, there were those who were hawking all things LSM and then there were those that shared personal experiences.
Again, I just felt it made the experience more of a matter of the spirit, not less. You were competing against everything.