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Originally Posted by Cassidy
If your objective is to increase participation from current local church members then you will need to establish an environment where their views can be expressed freely and without antagonism. Given the history in this forum and knowing that those current member views will be different from yours, I doubt that increased participation from current local church members is something you really want. If so, you are not set up for it.
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Actually LC system members are not accustomed to a forum format and no doubt that is why they may feel uncomfortable participating in this one. Furthermore they do not like situations that they cannot control.
Antagonism = openly expressed opposition. What's wrong with that? I know LC system members don't like any form of opposition and they learned this from Witness Lee. He ran a monologue and everyone said "amen". And now the more accurately members can repeat his words the louder the "amens" they will receive. But that's not how a forum works. In a forum if someone disagrees with your POV (Witness Lee's POV being repeated by you) then they will openly oppose it.
In addition to receiving open opposition LC system members might be asked direct and concrete questions about their beliefs and practices for clarification purposes. They can either answer these questions or do any number of other things like: ignore them and hope they will go away, throw out a red herring, run away from the forum, etc. Which in a way are answers just not honest ones.
So LC system members can either accept the dynamics of a forum or stay away from the ones they can't control. In this particular forum they can "express their views freely" but should not naively expect to do so without any antagonism.