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Originally Posted by Ohio
Dear brother KisstheSon, occasionally you seem almost sympathetic to WL about how disappointing things had turned out in the Recovery. Perhaps I am wrong here. I too used to take WL's fellowship to heart concerning his frustrations with other brothers.
After reading many others' accounts of events which transpired, I can no longer be sympathetic. WL created a monster of his own doing. WL was abusive to other leaders and totally intolerant to the ideas of other leaders. He forced his followers to become absolutely one with him, absolutely one with his work, and absolutely one with his "office," Phillip Lee, his son. Those who were otherwise minded were expelled, their reputations destroyed, and the rest of the Recovery was properly "educated" about the matter.
And then WL is surprised that the LC's are no different from Laodicea. WL is surprised when the churches are barren? WL is surprised when the campus work under MC, his most ardent lackey, is legalistic? WL is surprised when RK is proud, kind of like his mentor? WL is surprised that TC is so difficult to work with, just like his "spiritual father?" WL is surprised when his closest adherents, personally trained by him for for decades, are such poor shepherds, spending so little of their time actually caring for people?
Is this not hypocrisy? Or perhaps it could be more rightly called insanity -- doing the same things over and over, and expecting different results.
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Amen, dear brother Ohio. Your points are well spoken and I receive them. It is indeed hypocrisy. The LRC whole thing was, and is, such a huge mass of deviation from anything related to the heart and mind and God.
I don't know what gets into me at times - sometimes I still weep over it.