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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Noah failed and was not covered and covered by different sons. We all have failed and are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ. We will be held accountable for every word too.
We honor the 7 decades of labor by Witness Lee but good God, we don't pray to him or idolize him. If there is a recovery on the earth would not that recovery stand on the shoulders of all of church history? If it is not with this group where is it? Is it a division of this recovery? How could that be when God is a God of oneness?
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Hi
unregistered, like you I was active and serving in the LC's for 30 years. After twice migrating to take the ground and start 2 new LC's, I completely intended to live out my entire life serving in the LC's.
You mentioned a God of oneness and division in the recovery. That's exactly what I faced when I left in 2005. LSM was planning to quarantine and cut out an entire region of the body of Christ. They had a divisive presence in every Midwest LC actively undermining the God-ordained elderships, and worked to destroy the loving oneness within all of these LC's established on the ground of oneness.
Eventually LSM and DCP did carry out their totally unbiblical and divisive works throughout the entire region of LC's where I had invested my life. Their standard never was the scripture or the ground of oneness. Their standard was oneness with LSM and loyalty to the teachings of Witness Lee. These facts are absolutely undeniable, regardless of what LSM has told you. Since when is the ministry of any man, including Witness Lee, suitable justification to divide and destroy the work of God in dozens of LC's? Please read I Corinthians chapters 1-3 again to understand what I am saying.
And yes, life had somewhat become the inside of a garbage can. There was no more glorious church life. LSM pitted brother against brother and sister against sister. We had become merely pawns in a great battle, and only the spoils of war. Personally, I would have preferred yesterday's garbage to the blood-letting that LSM was hell-bent to shed in order to accomplish their corporate business plan.
I'm not sure why you opened with "
Noah failed and was not covered." That seemed a little strange to read. The Bible mentions the failures of many historical characters, both good and bad, in order to teach us. David failed and he too was not covered. Peter also failed and was not covered. Alexander the coppersmith (2 Tm 4.14) had his failings. Witness Lee too had many failures which damaged a good number of God's beloved children. They were far worse than merely personal shortcomings to fall under the umbrella of "nobody's perfect."
This LCD forum exists to address the damages inflicted upon the body of Christ by the leadership, past and present, at LSM. We do acknowledge the many precious brothers and sisters in the Recovery at large. We were formerly in that number, but staying would have made us complicit with the sins at LSM. Sins which have never been repented for, rather covered up, and blame-shifted. Then LSM leadership has a longstanding history of both slandering and libeling those whose only "crime" was to obey their Lord and speak their conscience against these injustices.
Dear brother/sister, I recommend that you read the account of faithful brother John Ingalls, a founding pillar in the Recovery, whose factual account
Speaking The Truth in Love chronicles some of these issues.