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Originally Posted by SeekingWisdom
The leadership value the "vision" to the utmost. So they will do anything to protect it. I remember reading somewhere, Nee or Lee, in the early church life allowed certain sisters to lead. And it became a problem. So as a reaction to this it confirmed their idea that having woman leading is not God-ordained and becomes problematic.
Another example; in the FTTH, they had more relaxed regulations concerning relationships. After relationship problems arose, they began to introduce and enforce strict rules concerning relationships. It was not so much the relationships, but the relationships causing a distraction to the training.
You can see there is a pattern, where a problem occurs, there is a strong reaction to "protect" the vision/recovery. Ironically, even at the expense of the truth and/or the saints.
They are afraid that exposing a certain brothers will damage the recovery. I feel that it is not so much covering the brother, but more protecting this "vision". Thus, explaining the reluctant attitude towards admitting mistakes.
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I think you hit on something here regarding this valuing the vision above all else. That is how I remember the Recovery - all about the vision and God's purpose. As I have conveyed many times on here, the impression I got there was that God was primarily a God of purpose and He would get His purpose no matter what. While there's some real truth to that, and I praise the Lord for seeing that He has a high purpose, what got conveyed was that if you stood in the way of His purpose, He would crush you! This promotes fear.
The proper way of seeing God's purpose is that God is love - HE LOVES US and He has a plan and purpose resulting from His love for us.
Of course, one part of the vision of the Recovery is that His practical purpose is with local churches. Nothing inherently wrong with that statement, as all Christian groups are practically local, but saying you have THE VISION of oneness and therefore others just need to see that vision is most elitist and divisive. And in order for the organization of the LC and LSM to continue, that vision must be protected at all costs, resulting in another manmade division.