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

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Freedom

I even remember a meeting where a brother seemed to imply that if we didn't have "new ones" to bring to home meetings that we might as well not go to home meetings.
The LC that I'm from has put a lot of effort into trying to implement things like what WL said about shepherding, "vital groups", etc. It would seem that if we were doing everything that Lee said, then we could get the expected results. Not so.

In the locality I last met with, I had just the opposite experience of being discouraged from inviting "new ones". The home meeting was considered at max capacity.
On the LC burden of shepherding, you need to focus on shepherding the ones already present. If the current members aren't being shepherded, the LC is at risk losing them to another fellowship as what happened with my family.