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Originally Posted by leastofthese
Drake - I’m also don’t understand what led up to Chu appointing these new elders (and removing the old?). When Ohio says the LSM intervened, who were these people and where were they from? I’m not asking for names...
....If people from the LSM intervened - it sounds like you’re saying it was because Chu was attempting a takeover and not letting people participate in table meetings? In not, what am I missing?
Finally on what authority did the LSM intervene?
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LofT,
First, the attempted takeover of Mansfield in the fall of 2006 by Titus Chu through his proxies, the 4 elders he appointed, was preceded by a very public and open debate between Titus Chu supported by his coworkers and the blended brothers fulfilling their responsibility to carry on the ministry entrusted to them by Brother Lee. Titus Chu and his coworkers, particularly Nigel Tomes, launched very specific and targeted attacks on the blended brothers criticizing them by name. These attacks crescendoed in 2006 and had begun in earnest even in late 2005. So, the events in Mansfield were preceded by this hot intensified public debate for the better part of a year though Titus Chu was known to have criticized leading brothers in the Lords recovery long before that.
Second, by what authority you ask. A ministry is responsible for the churches it raises up. The church in Mansfield was raised up in 1966 largely by the ministry of Brothers Nee and Lee. Titus was an independent worker from Cleveland who influenced many churches in Ohio and the Midwest. However, that does not establish a right or entitlement to exert the kind of unscriptural authority over a local church as Titus and his proxy elders attempted to do. Look at #117 carefully. Those 3 items clearly show that Mansfield under those elders were swinging hard away from the basic standing, the most fundamental tenets of a local church. Were those deviations allowed to stand unchallenged the church in Mansfield would have lost its standing as a local church not able to receive all those whom the Lord has received.
Drake