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Indiana · 01-13-2016, 07:58 AM

In Bill Mallon's letter to Witness Lee he describes the troubling maneuvering of co-workers of Witness Lee in the Southeast to establish ministry-centered churches. Ron Kangas refers to Bill's letter in his message in Ecuador after denouncing me for putting the letter on the internet. Then, before the Body, he dismisses Bill's letter and Bill, with no regard for his testimony or the divisive behavior of the co-workers. I am denounced, Bill's experience is disregarded, and Ron pushes his agenda forward in South America, in Christless fashion, to establish ministry churches in alignment with him, with Anaheim, with the program - in the same spirit of the movement Bill Mallon reported 20 years earlier.

EXCERPT FROM BILL'S LETTER

6. "The young trainers (Minoru Chen, Howard Higashi, Paul Hon, Jake Jacobson, Benson Phillips, Dan Towle, Andrew Yu) during the 1986 summer training in Irving had sessions of so called fellowship with the elders, grouped according to the different sections of the country, held in Benson's house. Some of these were overheard while eating lunch, analyzing the brothers in order to categorize them, identifying the brothers who presumably control in order to isolate them, and plotting to force the brothers into a mass resignation in order to manipulate them.
Then in the afternoon meeting, these trainers intimidated the brothers with statements like: 'You have an incurable disease,' 'the only cure is amputation,' 'you are a babylonian protestant, because you do not preach that Witness Lee is a one man show,' 'we preach that Witness Lee is a one man show. and you brothers have a problem with this,' 'everyone must go to Taipei to show your oneness', and 'asking what to do is the old way... just present yourself, and don't ask questions.'
Don Rutledge tried to speak, but the thick intimidating atmosphere suppressed him. He was later branded with being in the old way. Afterwards, these young trainers said, "We have to be better prepared so no one can speak up like Don did." What kind of attitude is this when brothers should be practicing the inner anointing and the mutual fellowship? You cannot imagine how threatening the atmosphere was, being full of ultimatum and denouncements.
In summary, there was no sense of their identification with the Body, speaking from a mutuality as being members one of another, sharing from the intrinsic flowing out of the divine fellowship. Instead, it tends to tear down, not build up."

Bill's Letter and Witness Lee's Response in The Fermentation of the Present Rebellion. WL did not mention Bill's letter to let people know about Bill's experience with WL's co-workers.
www.twoturmoils.com/MallonLeeHidingHistory.pdf

Ron speaks about Bill Mallon in Ecuador,
"In 1988 certain co-workers severely criticized Brother Lee, and then they separated themselves, they went their own way. One of these brothers, in particular, his whole situation is tragic.

I would like to ask him, ‘after you wrote that letter to Brother Lee, and after you began to speak a certain way, what is your spiritual situation? How would you compare it with your situation when you were in Elden Hall'?

Aren’t you more experienced now than then? Would you say you are more living now’?

When many rebelled against brother Watchman Nee, and some of them wanted to be recovered, Brother Lee asked them, ‘how is your situation? You say you are right, you say Brother Nee was wrong’. They all confessed they were dead. If we would practice this one way of discernment, we would avoid most problems.

I am not afraid to be simple in this way, You say this, and you say this, I don’t know the facts, I don’t know who is right or wrong. But I know when I listen to you, I get death. And, when I listen to Brother Lee’s ministry, I get life. So it is so simple, I stand with life.

Why do you feel you have to know so much? It’s endless trying to know so much.

Now I hope you can understand experientially, what I am saying. But if you cannot discern between life and death, I have a suggestion for you, withdraw from responsibility in the church until the life in you grows. Those who take responsibility must have this discernment….. END

Ron's use of the story of Witness Lee's not so honorable blind loyalty support for W. Nee, is no way to shame Bill Mallon and it was no way for Lee to shame the elders in Shanghai during Nee's righteous suspension as we have learned from the accounts of ones who were in Shanghai made known in Dr. Lily Hsu's book...

And, Ron Kangas doesn't explain why brother Lee was "severely criticized" by brothers, who, he said, "went their own way".

01-13-2016, 07:58 AM	#321
Indiana Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 718	Re: Bill Mallon Dismissed by non-theocratic government In Bill Mallon's letter to Witness Lee he describes the troubling maneuvering of co-workers of Witness Lee in the Southeast to establish ministry-centered churches. Ron Kangas refers to Bill's letter in his message in Ecuador after denouncing me for putting the letter on the internet. Then, before the Body, he dismisses Bill's letter and Bill, with no regard for his testimony or the divisive behavior of the co-workers. I am denounced, Bill's experience is disregarded, and Ron pushes his agenda forward in South America, in Christless fashion, to establish ministry churches in alignment with him, with Anaheim, with the program - in the same spirit of the movement Bill Mallon reported 20 years earlier. EXCERPT FROM BILL'S LETTER 6. "The young trainers (Minoru Chen, Howard Higashi, Paul Hon, Jake Jacobson, Benson Phillips, Dan Towle, Andrew Yu) during the 1986 summer training in Irving had sessions of so called fellowship with the elders, grouped according to the different sections of the country, held in Benson's house. Some of these were overheard while eating lunch, analyzing the brothers in order to categorize them, identifying the brothers who presumably control in order to isolate them, and plotting to force the brothers into a mass resignation in order to manipulate them. Then in the afternoon meeting, these trainers intimidated the brothers with statements like: 'You have an incurable disease,' 'the only cure is amputation,' 'you are a babylonian protestant, because you do not preach that Witness Lee is a one man show,' 'we preach that Witness Lee is a one man show. and you brothers have a problem with this,' 'everyone must go to Taipei to show your oneness', and 'asking what to do is the old way... just present yourself, and don't ask questions.' Don Rutledge tried to speak, but the thick intimidating atmosphere suppressed him. He was later branded with being in the old way. Afterwards, these young trainers said, "We have to be better prepared so no one can speak up like Don did." What kind of attitude is this when brothers should be practicing the inner anointing and the mutual fellowship? You cannot imagine how threatening the atmosphere was, being full of ultimatum and denouncements. In summary, there was no sense of their identification with the Body, speaking from a mutuality as being members one of another, sharing from the intrinsic flowing out of the divine fellowship. Instead, it tends to tear down, not build up." Bill's Letter and Witness Lee's Response in The Fermentation of the Present Rebellion. WL did not mention Bill's letter to let people know about Bill's experience with WL's co-workers. www.twoturmoils.com/MallonLeeHidingHistory.pdf Ron speaks about Bill Mallon in Ecuador, "In 1988 certain co-workers severely criticized Brother Lee, and then they separated themselves, they went their own way. One of these brothers, in particular, his whole situation is tragic. I would like to ask him, ‘after you wrote that letter to Brother Lee, and after you began to speak a certain way, what is your spiritual situation? How would you compare it with your situation when you were in Elden Hall'? Aren’t you more experienced now than then? Would you say you are more living now’? When many rebelled against brother Watchman Nee, and some of them wanted to be recovered, Brother Lee asked them, ‘how is your situation? You say you are right, you say Brother Nee was wrong’. They all confessed they were dead. If we would practice this one way of discernment, we would avoid most problems. I am not afraid to be simple in this way, You say this, and you say this, I don’t know the facts, I don’t know who is right or wrong. But I know when I listen to you, I get death. And, when I listen to Brother Lee’s ministry, I get life. So it is so simple, I stand with life. Why do you feel you have to know so much? It’s endless trying to know so much. Now I hope you can understand experientially, what I am saying. But if you cannot discern between life and death, I have a suggestion for you, withdraw from responsibility in the church until the life in you grows. Those who take responsibility must have this discernment….. END Ron's use of the story of Witness Lee's not so honorable blind loyalty support for W. Nee, is no way to shame Bill Mallon and it was no way for Lee to shame the elders in Shanghai during Nee's righteous suspension as we have learned from the accounts of ones who were in Shanghai made known in Dr. Lily Hsu's book... And, Ron Kangas doesn't explain why brother Lee was "severely criticized" by brothers, who, he said, "went their own way".