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Originally Posted by Bradley
For some reason, when an authoritative figure or group is teaching you and warning you about a certain issue, that figure or group becomes the last person you would suspect of being the thing they are warning you about. We all read the outline and listened to the message about God's Move™ vs a movement of man and assumed like unthinking sheep that the ones feeding us the message were obviously 'God's Move'.
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This is very true. WL attacked and condemned a lot of things, but hardly anyone in the LCM ever dared to criticize him. In fact, I don’t think it even crossed most people’s minds that WL had any ambition or viewed himself as a “spiritual giant” – the very types of things that he warned everyone about.
LCers believe that WL was God’s “humble servant.” They feel that he saw things that others didn’t, that his ministry ‘unveiled’ something. They will thus equate following his ministry with being “God’s move.” It really is just an excuse for why they are following one man vs any other man.