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Originally Posted by Ohio
The very concept of "Recovery," with all its implications, is fraught with dangers. Sure, it sounded so good when we first heard it, but consider the results.
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When I first encountered the movement, the point of emphasis was always "Christ and the Church." Who could argue with that? It was pure and uplifting.
Things slowly began to change, however. I was always a little bothered when the leading ones would effuse about how great Witness Lee was.
"Christ and the Church" steadily evolved into "Lee and the Recovery." "The Ministry" replaced Christ, and "the Recovery" for all our practical purposes was the Church. We went from a blessed and proper generality to an exclusiveness second to none.
Remember the book
Animal Farm, the allegorical story about the beginnings of communism? It started out with "All animals are equal" (Christ and the Church) and ended with "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" (Lee and the Recovery). The transition happened slowly and subtly, and since it had the support of leadership no one could argue with it. The animals became more and more concerned that something was not quite right, but had no power to do anything about it. Near the end, the treacherous pigs in charge (ahem) saw Boxer, the strong, noble horse, as a threat, and had him shipped off to the glue factory.
It's easy to see the parallels. A lot of precious brothers and sisters were shipped to the glue factory.