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Originally Posted by aron
I have only one beef with brother Tomes. He is not leading up to larger point, that I can see. If he can "prove" the error of Lee's teachings, through exhaustive (to me) scholarship, he's done his work. But what then? No clue.
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Part of this is due to the touchy situation in the GLA. The more that issues with Anaheim are addressed, the more they apply to Cleveland also. This was the dilemma I faced several years ago ... how can the faults of the BB's be exposed, without them being linked to WL and TC? Most GLA leaders were only wanted to see the differences between the two headquarters, but the similarities were much more.
Aron, you ask,
"but what then?" This brings up several dangers. What if all GLA LC's (like Toronto) cut their ties with Cleveland. That isolation might be more than many are willing to bear. LC elders also face the scary thought, what if I only have a "second hand ministry," and could not survive without the strength of TC and his workers. For years their agenda revolved around Cleveland, and "
now what do we do?" Not that I blame them, however, since both Anaheim and Cleveland have both worked agressively for decades to produce that condition -- "
you can't survive without us."
Someone out there might say, "
no way, Ohio speaketh with forked tongue." Let me cite one fact. We had a glorious and much blessed churchlife in the beginning here, then, with the onset of the "new way," WL and TC began fighting over the "rights" to the service of our leading elder. He bounced all over the Northern hemisphere until he decided to call it quits. Never once did the Lord lead him to those places, rather he operated under the prevailing "relocation program." Simply stated, no worker has any say where he serves. Hence, by one wrong policy, every worker loses his right to follow the Lord in perhaps the most important decision of all.
Workers cannot follow the Lamb and churches suffer by losing the gifted brother God had given them. But the worst of it is the back room political power struggles that are produced by this policy.