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Originally Posted by Freedom
Really any teacher or leader is in danger of producing followers, and they don't have to even try. People are bound to follow those who they find to be helpful.
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That is so true. And some helpers are enablers for the codependent types.
I discovered this at a local Church of Christ (Campbellites), in Sunday School class. When I pointed out Peter was naked a sister freaked out and said that couldn't be true. And when the preacher who was leading the class confirmed what I said she freaked out even more and said, "Why would they put that in the Bible?" Then she continued to work the matter up into a lather with other sisters, after the class. A sort jibber-jabbering, like a bee hive, was traveling at the speed of memes, passed to other sisters, before the worship service. Like naked Peter was just discover, in the Bible, no less.
So I got a call after church services by the pastor telling me that I was trying to feed meat to milk drinkers (I'm thinking, 'naked Peter is meat' but didn't say anything). These milk drinkers have grown children, and gray hair. How long are they going to remain milk drinkers?
Sadly, even in this little local church, dependency is being enabled. And both the dependents and the enablers are to be blamed. There's a comfort zone found in the two-sides-of-the-same-coin dynamic.
But I have no room to speak, and shouldn't judge. If honest I have to admit that, I once was a co-dependent on Witness Lee. Shame shame on me ... that I found a comfort in that. If I can depend on Lee then I'm off the hook.