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Originally Posted by aron
Contrast that to WL, who didn't recognize (his) culture, and thus it became the proverbial elephant in the room. Invisible, unnoticed and unremarked, but crushing everything.
Somehow he thought he'd gotten past culture, and convinced us of that, but it therefore had us in a death-grip. Literally. It killed the church life dead.
The way that you can really see what culture did to the LC was those places where it butted up against the Bible. Culture won, every time, hands down. No contest. Elsewhere, we pretended that we had no culture but 'heavenly culture' and no mandate except scripture. But the tentacles of culture actually permeated everything.
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WL got a free pass, because no one ever questioned his intentions. When WL said that culture needed to be dropped, this is exactly what everyone did. There was probably a basic assumption that he had already do so if he was encouraging others to do it.