Great book, Jane!

Hi Jane:

I sent this to the TheThreadOfGold@verizon.net address but it bounced back.

I really enjoyed your book. I was never a Local Church member although for a while I had some dealings with a couple who were. I also visited The Church in Cerritos when Hank Hanegraaff made a guest appearance a month ago. (BTW do other local churches have a big bookcase of books by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee at the front of the meeting room? It kind of reminded me of a shrine.)

My relevant background was five years in an independent fundamental Baptist church in the 1970s. There were a number of similarities but it was really a one-man-show controlled by the pastor. As such, it wasn’t organized well enough to cause as much damage to individual members as the LC does, but it did significant harm to my faith for a while. Anyway I learned from that experience to go with what the Bible says rather than what people say it says.

I think your book has the potential to be a Christian classic. There are a lot more people who have been hurt by authoritarian church situations outside of the LC than in it. If you could figure out a way to get more people like that to hear about the book it would be great. I’m planning on doing an Amazon review on it—see my previous effort at https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profil..._=cm_cr_pr_pdp—but just one more book review isn’t going to have a big impact.

May God bless your ministry.


In Christ,

Dave (my father’s name was also Ralph David, so I go by Dave at home and church)
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Ralph Westfall
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