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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Sham. That's a word I never thought I'd use to characterize Witness Lee, his ministry, and to some extent the Local Church itself.

This past week has been a real education on the history and character of WL, his ministry, and his successors. (I'm the guy from the "Some thoughts on this site" thread.)

A week ago if you would've told me "the Lord's Recovery is a group of Christians with an exclusivist attitude and weird, insular culture" I would've said "Yep, I've known that for a long time." But it wasn't until I was informed of this site and spent a lot of time reading the documents and comments, along with even more time reflecting, reminiscing, and writing about it myself that I can now conclude "it's a sham." That's a significant difference from merely calling it puffed up and peculiar.

A big thank-you to the core community here for hosting this site and providing this information. The real shame would be if these important historical records were lost.

p.s. I have some ideas how to better organize and communicate the information on this site. Let me know if you're interested.

Perhaps we should have had the definition of "sham" :https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sham and a description of what TLR "purports to be at the beginning of this discussion.