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Originally Posted by calvinnme

"Don Rutledge:
“The turn away from the local church life began in January 1974 at the very first special elders and co-workers conference. This is when the concept of the work began.Few of the saints realize the magnitude of effect this meeting had on the churches. With charts and statistics, Witness Lee and Max Rapoport came forth to launch the movement. It was boldly declared that the churches would use Witness Lee as the exclusive source of teaching and Max would serve as the coordinator to bring the various churches, with their elders, into a unified movement. Two life-study messages a week were going to be given in Anaheim and ministry stations were set up in various cities to repeat the messages through designated brothers."

If Don Rutledge figured this out in 1974, why was he leading a Bible study at the University of Texas in Arlington and espousing all of what he now recants at least through 1980? I came into the church in 1977 partially as a result of those Bible studies. Perhaps if he had said something sooner I wouldn't have spent the last 40 years wondering if I did the right thing by leaving.

As with the rest of us, "hindsight is always 20-20."

And, since many of us were led to the LC's by the Lord, we needed the Lord's leading in order to leave.