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Originally Posted by Lisbon
Something far worse, around 30 years ago WL unmercifully harangued JI in a meeting blaming John for missing the proper end time setting of his song. And unrelated to this I saw a video in Irving once where WL miserably thrashed his servants for not dusting his office properly in Taiwan. Lee had got so angry about the ordeal that he called in a camera crew to express his anger to the world. And of course RG cooperated by showing it in Irving. I'm not inferring it was shown in a church meeting but to 30 or so people.
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The closest I remember of something like this is where WL publicly humiliated TC in front of the training. TC even used the words "I am ashamed" to preface his confession that Cleveland wasn't up to Anaheim's standards.
Now I understand from Ohio, that the elders in Cleveland would have to say "I am ashamed" to TC, and then the rank-and-file members would also have to do the perp walk before the elders.
WL was the untouchable. Proper and harmonious "local church life" demanded this. But every one else was supposed to bow and scrape, all the way down. With the independent Americans, especially on the fringes, it wasn't always like this, and it could be a little more convivial. But the closer you got to the center, and the closer in cooperation you got with the center, you were supposed to see how things run. They didn't call them 'trainings' for nothing; ultimately it was about lining up with the apostle. That was the lodestar of the Lord's Recovery; that was the ground. And the shaming and bullying were simply reinforcement mechanisms to make sure everyone got conditioned, and got into the message.