The Change in Nature of the Lord's Recovery

[Indiana]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

I wonder if he should have been specific, and maybe that would have not been so easily dismissed - it may have been more of a healing/correcting word if he had done that. But that did not seem to be his MO . . .

We do leadership classes and there's a case study where the leader clearly makes a mistake which causes several serious issues. One question we ask participants is whether the leader should apologize for their mistake, and the responses are often fairly divided. People saying they shouldn't apologize, frequently state their reasoning is that it would make the leader look weak and undermine their authority. It's actually the opposite for a variety of reasons.

Brother Lee did not explain what he was referring to because he would lose face, so he only left them "the CHARGE to learn," which was actually HIS responsibility to deal with also and make right in the Body, concerning a number of matters and people spanned over several decades.

Witness Lee left many brothers exasperated.


Bill Mallon Sums up the deviation and the "Change of Nature" in the recovery.

“You will never know how completely astonished, shocked, and
unnerved*we were when WL put more and more things under Philip Lee’s
responsibility. It was incredible and unbelievable from the get-go!”

“How could such a so-called man of the Spirit (WL) hand over a spiritual
work to a man of the flesh (PL)?!?!* It was repulsive, let alone*depressive. It
was once brought to my attention that Witness Lee appreciated Philip Lee
because this son of his turned*Witness Lee’s ministry and the LSM into a
money-making business.

“Witness Lee first got off-track when he deviated from his original principle. He said in the 1960s that the churches should not be for the ministry and should not build*up the ministry, but that the ministry should be for the churches and build up the churches.

This he reversed dramatically in 1974 when he moved to Anaheim for the purpose of centralizing*his ministry and decentralizing his focus on the churches. (1) At first his ministry was the center and he expected all the churches to strengthen, support, andgive allegiance to*it. (2) Later,*WL himself became the center, and everyone and all the churches were judged according to their*loyalty*to the "minister." (3) After this, WLexpected everyone to give allegiance and financial support to*the LSM bookroom, and
whoever failed to acknowledge and support the bookroom fell from his favor and were judged disloyal. (4) Finally,*WL's ministry deteriorated to an all-time low, to*a*hole below*the pit, when he gradually installed PL to be in charge of even the training,expecting all the churches to give their allegiance and loyalty to his son in (and of) the flesh.

“These were the heavy, unbearable*feelings in our hearts. As time went by, we tried to do something about it. But characteristically, when WL was approached about such matter, he was like*a little Chinese man who suddenly burst into a nine-foot intimidating giant.”
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Bill had personally written three letters to Witness Lee “to politely, and yet, plainly, bring the troubling issues before him”.* Bill also conversed with him by phone, in his attempts to bring his attention to the serious problems incurred in the Southeast churches at the hands of Philip Lee and others representing LSM. Witness Lee did not listen, as was the testimony of many others especially during the late 1980s turmoil in the U. S.,*Europe, Taipei, and other Far East churches.