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Originally Posted by Ohio
But after fifteen or so years, by 1845, “Darby had taken up very strong views against the formal recognition of elders.” It was in that year he found himself frustrated by the elders of the Plymouth assembly in his desire to prosecute his war against Newton within that assembly. This at once suggests one of the chief reasons for having “elders in every church” (Acts 14:23): they are a garrison to keep out disturbers. Such an arrangement, had it existed everywhere, would have largely thwarted Darby’s measures of universal domination of the Brethren assemblies and universal excommunication.
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What was said about the Brethren can be said about the Recovery. Just as Darby was frustrated by the elders, as was Lee in the late 1980's. Perhaps in part because their care was more for the locality they were responsible for than they were for the work of LSM?
Just as I had underlined, if elders had been elders instead of hirlings, the unscriptural quarantines would not have been followed and LSM would not have undermined the understood course of fellowship. Just what can be said about the Brethren in relation to Newton and Mueller being out of favor with Darby, same can be said about former elders and co-workers who found themselves out of favor with Lee.