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Originally Posted by Nell
So you think those being abused by the LC leadership and other LC members should just shut up and forgive the LC abusers? Do you think speaking the truth about your abuser means you are living in "unforgiveness?" Isn't the abuser living in great sin and need in need of rescue? Isn't the abuser in need of someone confronting him/her about their behavior? Who is in worse condition, the abuser or those being abused? The abusers are supposed to be the shepherds of the flock. What is their accountability...not only to the sheep, but the One who entrusted them to care for His flock?
It's not really about the abused walking in "unforgiveness" is it? This is an extension of the "blame the victim" myth. You can't abuse someone then stand over them and preach to them about being "unforgiving."
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Nell, I appreciate your candid, albeit blunt, assessment of LC leadership. It is not "Christian" leadership per se, but actually is abuse, and is accurately called "
lording it over those entrusted" to these leaders. (I Peter 5.2-3) LSM has long ruled the LC's "
by way of compulsion, not according to God, but seeking gain by base means."
I would add that LC leaders learn all their bad habits from regional and national workers at LSM. There is a grossly flawed pattern of authority taught and practiced by Witness Lee himself which has corrupted the entire leadership structure of the LCM. There is a disease of lust for power and control which has polluted the entire movement.