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Originally Posted by Freedom
Several years ago, I witnessed someone in the LC have a complete mental breakdown over the period of several months by attempting to be too "spiritual". Nee and Lee did know how to convey teachings that at least sounded good, but they didn't know how to properly put these teachings into practice. That's not even to mention teachings that should have never been put into practice in the first place.
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The "God-ordained-way" of the Bible is to have local shepherds, teachers, elders, and ministers to lead and care for the local flock. The Lee system of leading neutered the functions of these brothers. They were simply reduced to facilitators or mindless franchisees connecting their people with a distant publishing house.
So it's no wonder we had so many failed marriages, mental breakdown, and general "disconnects" with real life. Evil workers simply considered these as collateral, the inevitable consequences of spiritual warfare. Their callous attitudes towards personal pain infected the whole system.
With either Anaheim or Cleveland at the helm, I eventually concluded that individual member churches existed solely for the prosperity of the leadership at headquarters. We served only to build their empires and provide them glory here on earth.