[Ohio]

Originally Posted by JJ

Unfortunately, local church leadership views all requests for apologies, discussion of problems, and/or issues as “rebellion”, “opposition, “poison, etc. Instead they excommunicate, make pronouncements of “quarantine”, order shunning, and/or threaten and sometimes pursue lawsuits. So, nothing ever gets resolved. At least I haven’t seen any since 1978.

It’s sad, but it turns out that violating “Love one another” for the sake of loving “The Minister” and “The Ministry” is Standard Operating Procedure.... straight out of Darby’s playbook?

Yes, straight from the Exclusive Brethren playbook. Like WL, Darby tried to "stay above the fray" by allowing thugs like G.V. Wigram to assault George Muller and any who sided with him. But Darby was fully complicit as evidenced by his infamous last encounter with Muller, who btw demanded a little accountability.