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Originally Posted by aron
And so forth. This was what I meant by the vanity of "bean counting", here on this side of the judgment seat. It is vain, and it shows you've been distracted from the Spirit, which is given "without measure", but is only limited by your ability to receive. If you start counting, you have lost your aim, and will surely suffer loss.
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Since you are on the topic of
keeping score, I can't imagine how much corruption has entered into the Recovery church thru this door.
Leaders like Titus Chu sincerely felt that his reward was based upon how many saints were under him. He and other leaders had numerous battles between regions due to this. Battles were fought over the rights to younger workers, which, btw, was one of the chief incentives to startup the FTTT and FTTT. They fought over the rights to which churches belonged under their "care," resulting in a few "border skirmishes." The underlying thought of the recent GLA quarantines could be reduced to "
who do you belong to, Anaheim or Cleveland?"
Within his region of influence, TC never allowed others to take credit for the Lord's blessing. Both times when I migrated to start new churches, the Lord blessed our sacrifice and obedience to Him with new believers and the freshness of the Spirit in the Word. But TC could never allow any satellite church to receive glory. Slowly he would decapitate each church by relocating its pillars to other places, deceiving us with promises that the Lord would send more blessing.
There was no such thing as, "
if a member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it." (I Cor 12.26) That verse in the GLA should read, "
if a member is glorified, it is because God is blessing TC." Years ago, he told John Ingalls, "you owe Brother Lee everything, including your own life," and the unspoken message received by many of TC's followers was similar, "I owe Brother Titus everything, including my own life."