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Originally Posted by Igzy
... and in its own way it sums up what's wrong with the LRC system--that is that the LRC system is not about people, it's about the system.
That's the Lee effect. Minimizing relationship. But when you minimize relationship, you minimize people. When you minimize people, they becomes means to an end. They become fodder for the cause. That not only misses the point of everything, it stands in opposition to it. It shows you have no clue what God is about and what is truly important to him.
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And I would just add that it's not just "
all about the system," but it's all about the ones in charge of the system. It's all about how is your relationship with them. The system, whether referred to as "
the church, or the body, or God's move, or His purpose, or the Recovery, or God's New Testament Economy," or any of a whole host of "
smokescreens" to hide their real intentions, simply builds edifices to the one on top.
I witnessed both WL and TC doing this. They demanded the utmost loyalty and zealotry to their system which was actually to themselves. Both used the churches and the saints to build their empires. Workers and elders only served at their pleasure. Those who attempted to follow the Lord directly, serving His people, were beat into submission, because the highest priority was not your relationship with Him, but with him. The biggest threat to their empires was not sin or worldliness, but a certain required independence by church leaders in following their Lord directly. Thus the LC's became "of Lee" or "of Titus."
This is why both of these brothers became so abusive towards other brothers. They could never share "their glory." The saints' relationships with their elders, or their church, or the one next to them, were also bonds which needed to be broken in order to maintain the ultimate relationship of all, codenamed "one with the ministry." One would never know this by their teachings, however. Kind of like my maxim about politicians:
pay little attention to what they say, rather to what they do.