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Originally Posted by Ohio
Sure. It started with this absolute oneness with the ministry. After the Phillipians training, with the "account of giving," Ray Graver and company began to actively promote the ingredients (e.g. we all are "in debt" to Lee) which would eventually elevate Lee to maximum MOTA status. I'm sure Lee had sown the seeds necessary prior to this, but small town Texas Graver was the one to launch this rocket to the forefront of the Recovery. Shortly after, Lee went to Taiwan to take over the church there, and "The Office" Phillip was charged with bringing all the leaders into submission. Inevitably a global purge resulted.
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At some level, the local churches have been a personality cult since the very beginning (at least in the US). So many of those who were enticed with Lee's speaking were already reading Nee and trying to figure out how it should be practiced in their lives. What they were offered is more Nee.
I will not deny that there have been some from Texas that have helped to make the LRC what it is today. But it is not just Texans. It is the whole system. The BBs are not just Texans. At some level, I think that TC probably saw himself as heir apparent since he had roots back to Taiwan before the LRC in the US. And that fact may be the reason that the GLA was not as engrained in the things that seemed to come out of Texas. They had the things coming out of Cleveland under the leadership of the semi-loner, TC, to deal with. In a sense, I would suggest that Texas was not so unique in being so much for the ministry. But TC saw the ministry differently and did not want to just go along. I'm even reminded of the sort of battleground that some small church plant in Iowa or something like that came to be, with Texas and Cleveland each sending someone there to either take the lead or at least keep it linked back "home." Remember when Jane told about it? And that guy was effectively bought-off to come and revise his prior statements to her?
Anyway, since the LSM hierarchy eventually was primarily SoCal and Texas, there was somewhat of a rift between the LSM and the GLA that made much of the emperor's clothes evident to the membership in the GLA. And eventually, even with some of the leadership in the GLA as we see these articles from Nigel that expose not only things that have gone astray from Lee, but how Lee has gone astray from the Bible.
Meanwhile, whatever might be a Texas factor is still mostly embedded in the LSM, so whatever its leanings and however it would tend to further the errors of the LRC, it lives on.
In the early days we were promised more Nee, and got Nee and Lee, then less Nee and more Lee. And all the while they were convinced that these men were the ones who had the words of life. And as far as the things that were there in the LRC, they
were/are indebted to Lee.
And it may be leading to bankruptcy.