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Originally Posted by Ohio
Recent events in the GLA are just proving once again that LC senior workers will never "serve" you, unless you first allow them to "rule" you, and "own" your saints as their own.
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The only way reform would work is if
almost all LCs had strong local elders who knew how to put "the work" in it's proper place e.g. one among many ministries that we may invite to guest speak on occasion, financially support (if we want, when we want, how much we want), might announce a ministry event if it doesn't disrupt the local agenda, etc.
This attitude and practice would isolate "the work" if it didn't want to cooperate. Let Titus Chu and his workers stay in Cleveland and talk amongst themselves until they learn to respect the local elders and the fact that they will not be beholden to the coworkers.
Do I think this will ever happen in the GLA or Anaheim versions of the LC system? Absolutely not! Most of the elders currently in place are where they are because of their loyalties to certain coworkers. If they switch their loyalties to the local flock and start to vet para-church ministers and their ministries their positions as elders will be in peril.