[Dave]

Originally Posted by aron

As 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.

I think you are on to something. When I came back from Detroit (to Santa Cruz) after WL asked me to move there (Detroit) and I shared what happened to Karl he was a little miffed although he thought that maybe WL was giving a blessing on his efforts since WL was taking one of his key people to migrate to Detroit (Please note that WL had called Karl and asked him to send me to a conference in Detroit and Karl was obviously concerned before I left) Karl had mixed emotions but saw it as an overall positive and at least he spun it that way at the time. Of course, looking back WL probably saw an opportunity to undermine SC since WL never discussed me moving to Detroit with Karl either before or after.