Merged Thread: Ron Kangas

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Originally Posted by Curious

We are doing a particular thing here on this thread, and elsewhere on this forum.

My main hope and prayer is that this will help lurkers. Those current LCer’s secretly reading this forum who are gradually shifting their paradigm. I hope it helps them to break out of the haze that comes over their minds to confuse and almost bewitch them whenever the familiar wording and concepts reach out at them, through statements issued by the LSM wordsmiths. The style of speaking, and use of key words are so familiar, and a person is so conditioned to not be able to process the statements critically. ie, there is an ingrained conditioned response to key words and phrases (like the word ‘proper’) that can disempower the questioning LCer’s mind. The extent to which the person’s mind has been dominated by this style of speaking determines how hard this is to battle. It’s a form of ‘fear-based, mind-control programming’. We are breaking it down for them. I hope it is working.

Each of us must learn how to unlock the shackles which bind our own minds to the false authority usurped by the Blendeds at LSM. For me personally, this happened while I was reading John Ingalls' account Speaking the Truth in Love back in 2005.

How ironic is it that every stage of the so-called "Recovery" also required the same unshackling of mental authoritarian strongholds gripping the genuine seekers of God Himself? Firstly, read the Gospel of John carefully and one can readily ascertain the false authority imprisoning those who met the Savior Himself. Those folks lived in morbid fear of what the Jewish leaders would do to the followers of Jesus. Jesus told them that He was the Door, the door out of their prison, the door into green pastures. Following Him always leads us into freedom of heart.

Consider the inner torment and struggles of the reformer Martin Luther. On a miniature scale, some of our own journeys matched his. Luther had access to the word of God, and began to see thru the lies and falsehoods of Roman traditions. Still mentally entangled to Papal authority, as a priest he made a pilgrimage to Rome, the "holy" city. There he saw the filth of corruption, prostitution, lawlessness, and he was thoroughly shaken within. God used that trip to free Luther. Likewise, many of us needed to read about the corruptions in the Lee family -- deception, immorality, abuses, filthy lucre, and more -- in order for us to be freed within from the bondage of authoritarian schemes and strongholds controlling us and imprisoning our minds to their system of error.

The sad tragedy of recent Recovery history is that every expulsion of false authority -- whether Darby, Nee, or Lee -- eventually became a far worse authoritarian scheme than the one they rejected. This is why Recovery leaders are so keen on rewriting history, otherwise the membership might learn and reject what has happened in their midst. There was real liberty back in the days of Elden Hall, but today those liberties are gone. Of course, some do learn, and speak their conscience on behalf of the children of God, but those that do must be slandered and branded as rebellious, leprous, ambitious, divisive, "man of death," etc.