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Originally Posted by Dave
Even though WL later asked me to come to Detroit I wish I had stayed in Santa Cruz. It was the highlight of my LC experience.
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Ohio wrote, it was the policy to uproot people, so they couldn't be truly local; they couldn't get attached to the local assembly, area, city, or neighbors. Instead, people were to be for the ministry. WL would rather uproot a fruitful serving person into an unfruitful position, and suffer loss, rather than let them become too successful in one spot, and generate a a competing kingdom. Just look at what happened with both DYL & TC. No, for the sake of the ministry they needed to be rooted up and moved.
I once went back to my old local church after about 8 years away. All the young people (HS & College) were gone. They were all either "serving" the ministry somewhere else, or they had gone into the world. The "local" in the local church was revealed as a convenient fiction.