Mere Christianity or Degraded Christianity?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Igzy

There was a elder in Austin who was a little older than me. I had lived with his family while going to college, so I knew him pretty well. This was the account he gave to me of his excommunication.

Back around 1990, he began to be more and more troubled about what he saw happening in the "Recovery": The rallying around Lee after the Philip Lee's scandals, the increasing power of LSM, the financial hanky-panky. He said that as an elder you see things and that he saw money laundering.

He loved the church and wanted to see reforms. He told his fellow elders simply, "I cannot follow Witness Lee exclusively anymore." Not that he couldn't follow Witness Lee some, just not exclusively. How unreasonable is that? It was very reasonable and rational given the circumstances. The only thing more so would have been to cut ties with LSM altogether.

Their response? They asked him to either recant or resign. He resigned.

History tells us that reformers are the enemy.

Especially those who plan to "drain the swamp."

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When the GLA was being "quarantined" by LSM Blendeds, I was corresponding with a number of GLA brothers I knew, and each felt the time was ripe to enact a good number of reforms within the GLA, meaning that they felt TC would be willing to change. Many brothers were hopeful. I had already left the LC's, and was skeptical, but open-minded. One couple I happened to run into said, "you should reconsider, the church life is really improving."

Before too long, I heard all of them had left. Neither LSM nor TC could ever really change their "top-down management style."