Leaders of the Lord's Recovery

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by aron

And on the negative side, look how WL dealt with these agents when things turned bad. As Ohio said they became convenient scapegoats. Again, Max R comes to mind. Also I saw WL publicly browbeat TC in a meeting once. WL didn't say, "I wonder if that's how things are with the saints in Ohio"; rather, he turned to his left and said, "Titus, is that how things are in Cleveland?" and TC rose stiffly and looked at the ground and said gravely, "I am ashamed to admit..."

Titus Chu told us years age that to the Blendeds Witness Lee was god, but to him Witness Lee was a man. The Blendeds received the words of Lee above the Word of God, and received the actions of Lee as the actual work of God. Should the words or the works of Lee run contrary to sound judgment or their conscience, they would actually recalibrate them to match Lee. That's why statements like, "even if Lee is wrong, he is still right," can pass by them without alarms going off.

Titus Chu, of course, convinced us in the Great Lakes area that his way was the more spiritual one. But was it really? He liked to say that Witness Lee was his spiritual father, and that the mistakes of one's father are, "none of my business." But when it comes to enabling the unrighteousness and the abuses of Witness Lee, what is the difference between treating him as an infallible god and saying that all his actions are "none of my business"? Granted Titus Chu did take considerable heat from the Blendeds for not being such a fervent cheerleader, but neither did Titus Chu stand for righteousness nor alert the churches to corruption at LSM. Did he not condemn John Ingalls for exposing LSM filth?

Thus we see the unwritten mandate placed upon every Recovery leader -- unwavering loyalty to leadership supersedes personal integrity, Christian righteousness, steadfastness to the truth, faithfulness to the Lord, and, of course, care for the saints under your care. Then, in another great show of irony, we have Witness Lee publicly shaming all the leaders for not being proper shepherds. Did he really expect to have it both ways?