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Originally Posted by djohnson
Hope I'm getting somewhat confused over what your thesis is regarding the Barber family in relation to the LCS. If you compare your family and their experience in Dallas with the Barbers is that entirely objective and fair? While your children may have had a positive experience in the LCS due to your shepherding skill i.e. ability to navigate them around the negative side of things that cannot be said in general terms.
From what I have learned several key leaders we have been discussing had problems with their children. Some quite severe. Many of these now adult children will have nothing to do with the LCS. Did they all have families like the Barbers? I somehow doubt it because such a varied number of personalities and circumstances are involved. The only common denominator I can find is the Lee crazed behavior of their parents and their LCS obsession.
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I was extremely close to the Barber family and consider them extended family. They are one of the main reasons I married who I married (though it ended in divorce). I count the LC directly responsible for the problems discussed regarding them. In one of the very last meetings James spoke to us over the phone from his bed. He was very clear that he could see everything more objectively after listening to the meetings from lying in bed with a possible fatal illness. Perhaps, some on this forum remember his admonishing in that meeting. He said something along the line that it is only Christ, nothing else. Later, I understood what he was trying to say.
Of the group of elders during this time: one had a son who dealt with serious alcoholism and another had a daughter who dealt with bisexuality issues. I attribute the LC to these problems, too. The Barbers weren't an isolated incident.