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Originally Posted by Hope
The leadership in many places did not spend adequate time to get to know the members up close and personal. The leadership was often too heavenly minded to be of much earthly good.
Don Rutledge
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The key word is in many places, not every place. Some leaders had or have full time jobs while others serve as full-timers. Each brother serving in aleadership capacity are each different.
I've known some who've worked full time and still have time for people. There were others likewise worked fulltime, but I never got to know them and they never got to know me.
About 5 years ago I read an article called In Wake of the New Way. In it's content was an excerpt of Witness Lee charging elders to contact brothers and sisters in their locality. There's time during the week for people to be contacted. What happened with the time?
There is time. It's a matter of elders or deacons taking the responsibility to contact households. In the local churches, is there a real care why someone suddenly stops meeting? Do elders or deacons take the time to find out what happened? Or is there a presumption that this brother or that sister is cold towards the ministry?
Two problems here is:
1. lack of contact
2. placing value on brothers and sisters based on how one gravitates to Witness Lee's ministry instead or caring for them as a member of the flock.
Terry