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Originally Posted by HERn
I'm thinking the order would come through the co-worker that supervises the states that the local church was a part of, and not directly from someone with an Anaheim phone prefix. I think local elders could choose to ignore the "fellowship" and be OK, but they might be subjected to continual peer pressure from co-workers and other elders to support the "flow". It seems to me things move very slowly in the LSM-LC movement, and it could take several years of pressure to "knuckle under" a wayward elder. I once asked a leading elder if he was going to follow the lords move to Europe and he told me he only does what the co-worker for our area tells him to do.
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It wouldn't surprise me if there were certain coworkers appointed to oversee a certain set of churches. I know that where I'm from, there are one or two coworkers that have visited fairly frequently compared to any other coworkers.
It's hard to say what level of influence they have. What I have noticed is the local elders tend to defer things to the coworkers when they seem unsure of themselves. Maybe many of the elders are not completely confident with their leadership abilities so they feel like the need the coworkers as father figures to help them through some of the more important decisions.