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Originally Posted by Drake
There is no credible evidence that such a behavior is unique to Asian culture nor is it a practice or norm in the local churches. If you detected anything of deference between Brother Lee and Brother Titus it based on the latter regarding the former as a spiritual father. That is not Asian, that is New Testament (1 Corinthians 4:15). Neither is it abuse and mistreatment for a spiritual father to speak frankly to a spiritual son and shepherd him. My birth father said things to me that he never said to my friends. He also disciplined me out of love. That is neither abuse or mistreatment.
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What kind of father, spiritual or biological, would use public shaming and humiliation to "discipline" his son?
That is not Asian, German, or American -- that is just wrong! Let's call it what it really is -- the Bully Pulpit.
Regardless of how
Drake likes to spin this, LC leaders
(from M.E. Barber to Nee to Lee to TC to whoever) regularly used public shaming for one reason -- to continually remind their followers who is in charge. It's goal, pure and simple, is the maintenance of power. That may be fine, even necessary, in the military, but has no place in the church, which is His body.
Jesus Himself, when He saw this behavior among His disciples, nipped it in the bud. He warned them that they should never "
rule as the Gentiles do." (Matt 20.25; Mark 10.42; Luke 22.25) The LCM not only did not get this memo, they built it up into their definitive practice.