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Originally Posted by Terry
I appreciate the true fellowship with which Nigel has written. There is no indication of diluting his words for the sake of his peers. Specifically being a co-worker of Titus. Much of what Nigel has spoken in this article has been expressed at one time or another on this forum.
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I don't think Nigel and TC are "co-workers" as you might think. First of all, even in the years before the quarantine, no one really worked "together" with TC, side by side. TC never had real "peers." Some may have thought they were peers, like JR and BB of Chicago, but once TC demeaned BB in front of all, over what was none of TC's business, everyone knew better. That offense btw became the watershed moment of the Whistler episode. As gifted and fruitful as CD was in Cleveland, the way TC treated him made it clear that they were not "co-" anything, and that CD served only at TC's pleasure.
This latest article "
Sacrament" shows how distant they now are. Perhaps I am wrong, but I see John Myer's fingerprints all over this article. Remember it was John who was called to Cleveland, where he was to be "questioned and found guilty," as he wrote in his epilog. The questions he was asked concerned "the ground." Obviously John "flunked" the LC litmus test stilled administered in Cleveland. For Cleveland to feature "the ground" in this conference obviously has TC's endorsement.
Nigel's article will not be received well in Cleveland.
Definitely not! If he could, TC would cut his support and kick him out of church housing, as happened to John Myer for speaking the same truth. This article also tells me that the elders in Toronto are like-minded with Nigel concerning this matter, since they are the ones Nigel is accountable to, as it well should be. As others have pointed out, this whole "local" thing is a farce anyway, since prior to the quarantine all GLA leaders, with few exceptions, were ultimately responsible to TC.
Nigel has not just done one of his scholarly studies on another diverse LC topic, replete with 17 pages of end note documentation, in this paper.
Nigel actually called the LC "ground" a sacrament! And I think he has proven it! This article has the power to shake the entire system to its foundations. I would think that both Anaheim and Cleveland would be compelled to retaliate. If TC has any connections left in Toronto, he would use them now.