John Myer made interesting observations here, which he applied to both sides of the recent quarantine in the GLA ...
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The Movement is basically a systematic approach to doing church and ministry that yields the same results in every context. Whether the leader’s name is Witness Lee or someone else is beside the point. To the extent that a group holds certain LC beliefs and practices, then it virtually guarantees a repeat experience of the same old undesirable Movement outcomes as before. This includes shunning any whom the leadership has tacitly disapproved (no actual sin need be involved); power struggles; politics; manipulation of individuals or environments (through intimidation, pressure, or flattery); real estate lust; the bully pulpit (innuendoes in messages meant to “deal” with someone or something), etc.
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When I first posted on LC forums, I made a number of comments which I felt were risky because they were conclusions about the Recovery which had never been vetted by another brother. I was basically going it alone. In a nutshell I had concluded that there was no real difference between Anaheim and Cleveland. Today this seems so obvious, and Myer's conclusion above bears this out, but at the time I wrote this, I had been told for three decades how
different TC was from the Blendeds.
John Myer makes a new observation about both centers, i.e.
real estate lust. That comment jumped out and slapped me in the face. Real estate lust! This became so evident concerning Anaheim during the recent lawsuits, but he applies it to Cleveland as well. When Myer encouraged the Columbus elders to hand over their property to the rabid LSMers, he suffered heavy criticism by TC and the other senior workers in Cleveland.