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Originally Posted by Gubei
I have met some leading brothers in S.Korea, and realized they now knew something wrong, but they just want to keep silent or keep distance away from the leadership position rather than speaking out what they have felt... partially understandable, but uncomfortable to me. May the Lord have his way in this country. Amen.
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Amen. May the Lord have his way in Korea.
Double bind (n) "a psychological predicament in which a person receives from a single source conflicting messages that allow no appropriate response to be made" [see e.g., works by Bateson, Girard]
The followers of Lee's Lieutenants at LSM, because of mixed or conflicting messages, are put in an uncomfortable double bind. On the one hand they've pledged to be "one" and "positive" and so forth. On the other hand, clearly there are problems from the past which have not been cleared up, but rather covered over, as Steve Isitt's writings (among many others) have shown.
The group leaders in LSM-affiliated ekklesia are in a dilemma. They want to go on, they want the light, they want life, they want spirit to flow, they want growth, both in numbers and in maturity and degree of works. But they also want to avoid being put out of the LSM synagogue (cf Joh 9:22; 12:42).
Steve Isitt attempted to eliminate the double bind. One day in a meeting, Witness Lee said, "We need to reconcile with those who have left. We need to find out what happened, to heal their wounds, to restore fellowship." So Steve tried to do this, and yet to remain "one" with LSM-affiliated church leadership. Eventually he found out that these were incompatible goals.