"Against the Tide" by Angus Kinnear

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Originally Posted by Ohio

The accounts of history show us that WL would bully TC, whether TC submitted to WL or not. Likewise, I know of far too many cases where TC would bully other brothers, whether they would submit or not.

We have the purported history of MEB disciplining WN.

We have seen (I saw it myself) WL shaming TC publicly.

We have Ohio's accounts of TC bullying the GLA saints.

What we don't have is the WN-to-WL dynamic. What was WN's leadership style? We have, as I recall WL's accounts of a humble, suffering servant WN who was persecuted by rebellious and misunderstanding saints. Expelled from ministry on false pretenses and so forth. "The woman he was living with was actually his mother." Etc.

But in his writing on "authority" and "submission" WN seems to indicate an authoritarian leadership style that WL praised in MEB, demonstrated publicly with TC and others, and TC and others copied from WL.

But I am not aware of objective, outside (non-LSM) accounts of WN's leadership style with WL and other subordinates.

Is there anything out there on this?

Secondly, I suppose WN could have actually been a "non-bully". But the system which he established of one-church-one-city allowed the bullys to emerge, and eventually dominate. The checks and balances were removed. So WN's leadership history may be irrelevant.