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Originally Posted by Ohio
This is what happens to church people who LOVE THE LAW.
This is what happens because loving the law causes us to lose our first love for God, and our second love for our brothers.
Paul said to those who loved the law, "The whole law is fulfilled in one word -- you shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour each other, see that you are not consumed by one another." (Gal 5.14-15)
Thanks for the little snapshot into what has happened to the Recovery that helped to destroy it. Lee used his LSM to bring all the LC's under the law.
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Yes.
And I note that someone somewhere else complained that it seemed I thought so little of the people in the LRC and their ability to see through the spiritual fog. But just like these little stories, I find less examples of gross abuse (though there were a few) and more examples of how we, the sheeple, followed whatever was put in front of us. We were not faced with a Mel Porter kind of authoritarian (though GD in Dallas had his moments), but we still were admirers of the idea that we should ask "how high" when asked to jump.
I'm sure it looked different in Cleveburg and the surrounding environs. Yet even all of that might have been somewhat dismissed, or missed altogether by many of the regular rank-and-file. Of course you have a better idea on that.
But it is now obvious that the leadership at the LSM did not have control of the church in Anaheim — at least not enough to stop the outbreak of negative information that caused them to publish FOTPR to try to stop the damage. (Wow. That is really kind of scary when you think about it. FOTPR was to stop damage when it should have had every reader asking more questions and trying to get to the bottom of it all and creating more damage — to the system, not the people.)
Funny thing is that I do not know how I would have responded if I had heard about John I leaving when it happened rather than a couple of years later. It happened just about the time I left and while I was leaving, I would never have expected the firestorm that was around it. By the time I heard about it, I had no idea, but could find no reason to fault him. Then many years later when I learned more, I find him to have been among the few righteous ones. Sort of like Lot and his family. And he got out before the fire came down. Good for him.