[Trapped]

The One Pub and the statements made in defense of it on afaithfulword.org turn my stomach and it grieves me that there are genuine believers in the Lord who have been deceived into believing the claims. Or that they see through the claims and are grieved themselves, but are trapped in such a peculiar fear-based environment where their entire lives might be derailed if they follow their conviction to speak up. I have spoken to a number of elders who see through much of this, but then defeatedly admit that they have to keep their mouths shut.

My own experience blows LSM's and Lee's claims out of the water. I recently heard a message (by someone ostensibly "devoid of light") on "blessed are the meek" that absolutely blew me away. There is SO MUCH in just the concept of "meekness" that I have never, ever heard spoken in any LSM-related gathering. (Also, what a concept, not ONCE in any non-LC message I've ever heard has the speaking brother criticized or put down believers in other churches or tried to pass off the speaking in their own church to be "unique" or "high" in comparison to other places).

In contrast, Lee's footnote on "meek" only says this: "To be meek means not to resist the world's opposition but to suffer it willingly", which is not what being meek means (or at least is a very small sliver of it)!! I think we can also safely say that in light of the LC's response to opposition that they have not been "meek" (according to their own definition) by any means.

To make sure I was doing due diligence, I also looked into the Life-Study and Crystallization-Study on that portion in Matthew and the shallowness and lack of light in comparison to the non-LC message I heard was astonishing.

Lee did not have and does not have the monopoly on light.