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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Have you read it? RG did not write it. He compiled it. Second, I read it and was completely unaware until this thread that the LSM ever published it. He never mentioned in Houston that it was going to be published by the LSM. Yet I saw him several times working on it and he shared it with the church in a meeting. Based on that I conclude that the decision to publish this as a booklet was made after he wrote it, not before.
Second, do you know RG? The guy was a construction worker (among other jobs). He was terrified of theological discussions and avoided them, hence his teaching "it is safe to imitate the apostle". This is the last guy anyone would have assigned the task of defending WL's ministry.
Third, do you know the LSM? They didn't go around commissioning other writers to write. As far as I can tell they publish WN because they have the rights to his stuff and they publish WL. Maybe now that WL is dead things have changed, but in 1980 who ever heard of them publishing someone else's work?
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I'm not sure what difference it makes whether LSM "commissioned" him to write it or not. It seems entirely plausible that he wrote it on his own, and LSM recognized it for what it was -- a great defense of their own preferred variation on "pray reading", calling two very different things by the same name and pretending they must actually be the same.