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Originally Posted by Ohio
Do you think TC is walking a fine line here allowing Paul Neider et. al. to promote teachings that Beck and the young people don't necessarily endorse or even want to discuss? These GLA young people's churches are not doing well standing up to the "old guard." Remember that team of young full-timers headed up by Neider's own son? They started a church in Chicago-land after the Gospel Odyssey which landed in the LSM camp. Then they relocated to the Pittsburg area and completely fizzled out in discouragement during the quarantine. Then John Myer got a pink slip, and the GLA lost the entire young people's church near OSU, devastating the church in Columbus. Will Rex Beck and his young church be the latest casualty in this generational clash of ideologies?
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I understand that Titus will not be in Cleveland for this conference, and it is really Cleveland elder Paul Neider who is so passionate about all the remaining GLA LC's being restored to their governing "vision" of the ground of locality. Neider was "captured" by this vision in the mid-70's in the church in Mansfield, and seeing his talents, Titus quickly relocated him to Cleveland. To his credit, Paul Neider has always resisted TC's public admonitions to quit his job and serve full-time. I can't begin to count the number of times I have heard Titus make this public plea, using every means available to coerce Neider into submission. It has been a long-standing joke in the GLA about Neider -- "
that brother who refused to quit his job." Putting aside my respect for Paul as a highly-regarded elder in the church, it does seem that this conference is a step backward.