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Originally Posted by Ohio
It's a pseudo-military training with Lee, the "commander-in-chief." The stated purpose was evangelization, but actually it was designed to humble all LC leaders under LSM's subjection.
An old friend of mine from Cleveland and Columbus was there too, and received a special recognition award for door-knocking achievements and no citations. He later was promoted to the eldership, and then shortly after that abruptly dropped the whole program and went back to the world. I pray the Lord restore his faith and love. There are many more stories like this.
Titus Chu used to refer to the trainers as "five little boys."
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I think that I've said this before, but it seems many current LC elders/leaders were those who attended the FTTT. I know that this is true in the LC that I'm from and in some of the neighboring LC's.
I must wonder how some of these leaders reconcile the legalism in the FTTT with what they perceived the LC to be before attending the training. I just don't see any way that those who attended the FTTT could have gone there and not had their reservations about what was going on.
I'm increasingly convinced that the FTTT was all about weeding out anyone who couldn't display 100% loyalty to the system. With imminent departure of some of WL's closest coworkers, showing loyalty to the system was advantageous for all the younger brothers. How else did the blendeds get their positions?