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Originally Posted by Igzy
Turns out the ways things are done in "Christianity" are the healthiest and most biblical.
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Amazing isn't it?
The basic premise of the Recovery from the very beginning was simple -- all of Christianity has misaimed, and now
only we do it right. Building on that supposition, all kinds of things were introduced into the LC's which at best were but failed experiments. The institutional para-church structure called "
the work," which supposedly was established to serve the churches, was chief among these aberrations. Loosely based on Paul's ministry to the Gentiles, this system grew over time until now we have a monstrous deformation of what ministry should look like.
John Myer was just one of many gifted brothers to pass thru the Recovery over the years. He was a well loved brother, definitely of a rare free-thinking, inspirational lot, and never once exhibited the tendency to create some rebel faction which is always attributed to those who buck the system. One of his complaints could be summarized thus: "
why do you want me to bring young people to Cleveland and then ridicule me in front of them." Any Christian in the whole of the body of Christ would agree that this was a more than reasonable request.
But not LC leaders.
LC senior workers do not live to freely minister to you, because they are not ministers in the sense of the pattern laid down by Jesus and the apostles. They will not "serve" you unless you first allow them to "rule" you, and then "own" your saints as their own. John Myer was just one more brother who failed in his attempts to change the system, and then was forced to depart. I doubt if any leaders in Cleveland even care.
Play by my rules or get out! TC then made this easy for JM by instructing the brothers to stop supporting him. Forget about the Columbus elders praying to seek the Lord's leading about this serious matter. As one elder said to the effect, "
We are TC's fruit, he raised us up, we have to take his fellowship."