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Originally Posted by awareness
The lead elder. Mel Porter, took over. He had a group of 14 brothers in his trust, that he was using to "seed" the meetings, the way the elder wanted it to go, and to make it look like the Holy Spirit was guiding the meetings. It's a real sleight of hand (or in this case 'mind') trick. Hosepipe quit coming to meetings, because the Spirit wasn't there, he said, before he knew about the elder seeding the meetings.
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That's not a stretch to say awareness. I witnessed similar speaking by an elder in the NW when there was fellowship in taking Life Lessons in lieu of HWFMR. Instead of "seed", the term used was "plant". Brothers would be planted to steer the meeting. Of course it would appear as being spontaneous when really it wasn't.