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Originally Posted by Drake
The One Publication is not about what you can read but about what they will publish.
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Seriously? Have you read what you wrote here?
The
One Publication edict was
never about what LSM would publish. W. Lee issued this edict firstly in 1986 in order to shut down regional circulations, mostly monthly papers, by other leaders in the Recovery. There were about a half dozen or more of these. W. Lee, being insecure concerning his own ministry, saw these papers as a personal threat to his family business. At that time Bill Freeman of Seattle left, while others simply kowtowed to Lee's demands.
Brothers like Titus Chu agreed to this only out of respect for W. Lee. After Lee passed, TC decided that what he had to minister was important enough to print in the vacuum left by W. Lee. Like thousands of ministers before him, the Lord put the burden on his heart to publish his ministry. TC never asked LSM to publish his books. TC found his own publisher.
The Blendeds then saw this as a threat to their power and their bottom line. The President of LSM Benson Philips saw this as a business decision. Either live with lost revenue, or expel TC and like-minded brothers in the Midwest. Once they negotiated a back room deal with Barker and Reetzke of Chicago, they saw the opportunity as ripe for action.
Thus the
One Publication edict was a divisive work of the flesh. It placed LSM's financial needs above the needs and liberties of God's people. Like Diotrephes of old (
3 John 9), LSM loved to be first, and not only that, they demanded that none be second or third. Like the Judaizers of old, LSM was willing to violate N.T. oneness of the body of Christ in order to bring all the LC's under subjection of their false authority. Like the Popes of the past two Millennia, LSM supposes that authority can be passed on by decree, but God is no respecter of persons. His Son alone is the Head of the body, not Pope, not Vicar, not Holy See, not "Seer of the divine revelation," not Blendeds, and definitely not their MOTA.