[OBW]

A few questions.

Why do we continue to think that Lee was something positive that "went bad"? Doesn't the evidence seem to point to the fact that he was busy creating impressions as far back as the mid 40s? Was anything he taught that we would keep unique to his ministry?

Is the answer that we had a time of enjoyment and can't accept that the man at the helm of the USS LRC was a poser? That it was more about becoming free of whatever it was that was binding us before, but Lee was never the cure?

Was it the fact that the atmosphere changed from wherever we had been before? Was the state of the new atmosphere much less important? Did the new atmosphere change, or did it just take time to recognize the new pollutants?

And last. Is it that hard to admit that we were duped in relation to the things that were the reasons that there were ever "Local Churches" in the way of Lee and his myriad of "special" teachings?

Some will say that I am just expressing sour grapes. But I am wondering if we are simply unable to face the thought that nothing was ever what we thought it was and we spent 2, 5, 10, 15, 20 and even more years in a group that we should never have given a second thought to? I gave 14 plus years to it. It gave me a sense of pride from the very beginning and then began to slowly went "off the rails" in my perception beginning about 2/3 the way through my tenure. In hindsight, I recognize that I was duped into believing things that never were true scriptural teaching. But at first it felt good anyway.