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Originally Posted by Trapped
FYI least, Drake could be on DCP's staff and still answer "no" to the question you posed since you said LSM specifically. On the https://afaithfulword.org/articles/AttacksOnLSM/ portion of the site LSM (or whoever) makes it a point to separate DCP from LSM (see the Direct Falsehoods section, points 3-6, approximately)......even though we all know they are not really separate. |
Thanks
Trapped. You helped to expose just one of the ways LSM can be deceptive.
Concerning the elders in Columbus and Mansfield. Drake often belittled them as Titus Chu's illegitimate "proxy" elders, but like it or not, TC has appointed elders in the Midwest since the late 60's. Under WL, TC was a recognized apostle, who was responsible for appointing elders. How is this in any way different than WL appointing elders in SoCal or Benson Philips appointing elders in the Texas region? All so-called "regional apostles" did the same thing, going back decades.
WL never once questioned TC's appointments. Rather the newly stated "Blended" brothers, led by Benson Philips, began to discredit him on every front, soon after WL passed in 1997. The Blendeds never were content to serve according to what God put in their hands, and instead plotted to eliminate all perceived rivals, starting with TC's quarantine. Next they quarantined the leader in Brazil.
This matter of appointing elders was just hypocrisy. If the Blendeds did it then it is right. If TC did it then it was wrong. When did TC ever go to other regions or countries and begin to discredit the elders?
What the Blendeds did in the Midwest is no different than what the Judaizers did among the Gentile churches in the New Testament -- stirring up trouble, instigating both Gentile leaders and naughty locals, to attack Paul and the other brothers with him, laboring in the gospel and ministering to build up the churches. Both the Blendeds and the Judaizers were totally outsiders, looking to get a foothold to bring the saints into their fold.