History, Not Hagiography - "Great Leap Forward" "The God-Ordaned Way" TOMES

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Originally Posted by Terry

Since Nigel wrote this article, it's been more like 25 years since the New Way. Even if localities try to revert back to the practice of door knocking, what is the motive?
Is it to add to the local churches or is it bring people to the Lord? It's relatively easier to bring people to the Lord, but to the local churches there have been Northwest elders that have said:

• If you're not here for brother Lee and his ministry, then you might as well not be here.
• The recovery is not for everybody
• It takes a special calling to be in the recovery

Point being if brothers own up to the fact the local churches are narrow, it is being imaginative to think local churches could grow at the same rate as bringing people to salvation.

I have heard the criticism of Billy Graham over the years. Why is he such a successful evangelist for generations? On one hand you can say he's not going beyond his measure. On the other hand he's not telling people where he thinks their home church should be.

A big problem in the LC is that they are still trying to practice the new way. Whenever the issue of the increase comes up or they try to address things like a lack of shepherding, guess what the brothers do? They go back to Lee's ministry on the new way and see what he says regarding how to do those things. Obviously the failures happen time and time again.

What really gets me is given all the failures, it is still promoted as they only way. WL's projections and statistics still seem to get everyone excited and hyped up. It's like no one can stop for a minute and realize that the new way didn't and doesn't work like it's supposed to.