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Originally Posted by aron
I missed the Elden Hall days but they were a mainstay of every meeting, even if you didn't overtly mention them. Because we were hollering and yelling and waving our arms to recreate the "Spirit of Elden Hall", when that Spirit had long since passed. Witness Lee's many "flows" - door knocking, vital groups, and so forth, were all vain exercises to create replicas of something - the Spirit of God - which had long since moved on.
It's like a bunch of aging hippies reminiscing about Woodstock. Instead of living in the now, they all tell each other what "peace, love, and happiness" used to be like.
The Christ-centered life is always new. The church-centered life quickly becomes a museum to whatever "glory days" you once experienced. Meanwhile the glory is abiding somewhere else.
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Great points.
One of the biggest con jobs in the Recovery concerned Elden Hall. WL continually reported that the entire blessing was due to one reason -- the saints were "absolutely one" with him and his ministry. Ones who were there always disputed that report -- firstly that whatever blessing was there was of the Lord during the Jesus people movement, and secondly that as Witness Lee slowly took over the ministry, the life and anointing in the meetings slowly vanished.
That distorted account of history was ever used to manipulate LC membership into absolute loyalty to a man. Most of those in the Recovery today were never at Elden Hall, but they still are praying for the time when all the saints would be "absolutely one" with the ministry of Witness Lee, and then all the blessings of God would return to them. How else can they explain the continued loss of membership and staleness of the meetings?