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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
About 7 years ago I read a review of a Russian guy who was invited to an LC meeting. He said he had never attended anything more boring than the meeting.
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I think the reason LC meetings are boring is because all spontaneity has been stripped away. Everybody is afraid to say anything not in the 'script' that Headquarters has put out.
At one point the LC meetings were quite local. In the Jesus Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s you had all these young people, who were allowed and even encouraged to function in the LC meetings. But as regional and local leaders were raised up in this system who exercised their "gifts" and became a threat to the central power, then the Maximum Leader, WL, said that every LC group must be "absolutely identical" (see e.g. RcV footnotes in Revelation 2 and 3). Absolutely identical to what?
They ended up with meetings of people who were afraid and unable to think and speak beyond the footnotes and training outlines.