The Wild, Wild MidWest - All things Great Lakes Area and Canada

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by alwayslearning

But thankfully dwindling as you said! BTW how would you quantify the before and after with regards to this issue? What does "dwindling" look like in application? E.g. of 35 churches in GLA 23 sets of elders still think and act like Titus Chu is the MOTA or...?

Unless I attended one of their recent conferences, I could not provide accurate information on all localities.

Besides Metro Cleveland, the biggest GLA churches were Detroit, Chicago, Columbus, and Toronto. None of these places now view TC as the MOTA.

There are probably a dozen or so new gatherings in the GLA which are pro-LSM splinters. West of Ohio probably has only central Minneapolis, Naperville, Goshen, and a couple small places still with TC, all the rest are with LSM.

Let me repeat my appreciation for Titus. He really is a gifted brother. Unfortunately, he has learned all of Lee's bad habits of how to treat other brothers, with the exception of lawsuits. This mistreatment, I believe, is the primary reason why so many brothers, who knew Titus personally, agreed with the quarantine. They may have feared Titus, but they never loved him. They viewed the Blendeds as a known quantity, the lesser of two evils, and a better ministry resource for their congregations. It also helps to side with the majority, which was clearly LSM. Nearly all of these brothers had heard TC sow suspicion into them about the Blendeds for years, so none of them were naive about WL's successors.

[alwayslearning]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Let me repeat my appreciation for Titus. He really is a gifted brother. Unfortunately, he has learned all of Lee's bad habits of how to treat other brothers, with the exception of lawsuits.

I think you have a balanced approach. We can appreciate a minister without elevating them into a MOTA and without allowing them any undo influence in our lives.

Witness Lee needed to be viewed in this manner but instead he was promoted and uplifted to heights even a pope might be jealous of!