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Originally Posted by kumbaya
Thank you for posting-I was personally so affected by just the situations in the last few decades but obviously, there's so much more to understanding the movement. I've got a few things added to my reading list now- thanks Ohio!
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Back in 2002 GLA and Anaheim leaders met in AZ and agreed on the so-called Phoenix Accord. Perhaps it was posted here. It was really childish, promising things like "we will not use the podium to bad-mouth one another." It was never adhered to, and after I saw it, I realized that another quarantine/storm was brewing. The Lord then put in me the interest in understanding what happened to the Plymouth Brethren, our forebears. I read all I could, and those were the best.
The similarities were striking. Even some of the characters -- 160 years and 2 continents apart -- seemed identical. By knowing Darby, I could understand W. Lee, which I felt was difficult. There is no way to conclude, at least in my mind, that LSM leadership was all good or all bad, and that seemed to be the decision most were faced with. Roy Coad said it best with his simple summary, "with John Darby there is so much good, and so much more wrong." The same applied to W. Lee.
I post here because so many people got hurt in a movement, which would never would admit any wrong doing. How can they ever defend the character of Philip Lee who ran LSM, ruled over the co-workers, and became a defacto dictator? I'm not here to judge the Lord's servants, but when their actions damage God's children, then others cannot be silent. (Matt. 18.31)