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Originally Posted by OBW
. For all the private meetings that Lee had with these people you suggest were dismaying Lee, why did he not take them to task privately? Why did he speak publicly about it as if he might be talking about someone else?
Maybe the implication was intended to direct the "little saints" to be different and put the blame for the problem on them. I just have this problem that the guy who can get the entirety of the "Recovery" to quickly change direction based on one message is needing to speak to everyone to somehow get the people he is otherwise privately brow-beating to do what they should. .
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I understand your logic but the history doesn't bear it out.
WL used proxies, "medium potatoes" if you will, to deal with the "little saints". Remember the role of Max R in the "young Galileans" episode. In my local church we occasionally had various regional or sector leaders who always made it clear they were not free-lancing but were blending with us at the behest of higher-ups. And when the visitors were from Anaheim they usually tried to give us a private word from WL himself. Wow! a word only one person removed from the great man himself!
And on the negative side, look how WL dealt with these agents when things turned bad. As
Ohio said they became convenient scapegoats. Again, Max R comes to mind. Also I saw WL publicly browbeat TC in a meeting once. WL didn't say, "I wonder if that's how things are with the saints in Ohio"; rather, he turned to his left and said, "Titus, is that how things are in Cleveland?" and TC rose stiffly and looked at the ground and said gravely, "I am ashamed to admit..."
Lee panning his lieutenants' efforts in front of us all seems like a reasonable assessment to me.