RE: Open Letter - Dear Saints in the Lord's Recovery - Joann Casteel

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

It sounded to me like that was the reason he did it, simple. From the conversation I realized he was aware of this forum and what has been said about him.

But it wasn't a repentance. I realized that when he asked to have the envelope the letter came in .

So he thought it was OK, just because WL said it was, right?

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

So he thought it was OK, just because WL said it was, right?

The impression I got was that this was a justification for his action. He was making WL happy.

[aron]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

The impression I got was that this was a justification for his action. He was making WL happy.

Make the LC Top Dog happy, make Jesus Christ and God the Father happy - pretty much a one-for-one analog in the LC. In fact, I'm hard pressed to come up with any scenario in the LC where this would not be so. As LC member put it, "I am happy to be an ostrich with my head stuck in the sand!" Shortly thereafter he was made an elder to the LC assembly in Anaheim, to replace the one who noticed 'Eli and his sons'...

Anyone who has not read this document should read it. The pattern is clear and consistent. Just do whatever Top Leadership says. Your conscience, the pattern of church history, the Bible do not matter. Obey the Top Leader.

http://makingstraightthewayofthelord...dsRecovery.pdf

[Ohio]

I found this message quite telling ...

A Facebook post from Jo Casteel’s neighbor:

"24 hours ago my neighbors were people we exchanged hellos with, one time borrowed a hair dryer, but strangers to anything personal. Last night Ben rocked their baby boy and I read their little girl bedtime stories while the mom started to make funeral arrangements for her husband who took his life.

I stayed with her overnight because in so many ways for so many reasons they are alone. 7.5 billion people on this earth and the only gospel that has been shared with them is horribly mangled.

I say all this to say, the devil is at work, but I have to believe God is in the details. There is so much hurt this side of heaven, so much confusion, so much evil. Life is real and raw and unexpected. Our job, our mission as believers has to straighten it out with love. His love. And we have to get better at it."

Because of Jo Casteel's professional obligations as a Registered Nurse, she was forced to signal the greater LC community when she learned about numerous abuses. Instead of working to protect the victims, leadership at LSM and DCP quickly moved to destroy this dangerous "whistle-blower." Her own family and LC family also disowned her. Incredible pressure was mounted against this young family.

Her kind neighbor, a lovely Good Samaritan, from "poor poor Christianity" then steps in to help in the midst of such a tragedy.

One ex-LCer told me personally 10 years ago of a revelation the Lord had given him: "There is no love in Laodicea." How true.

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Ohio

One ex-LCer told me personally 10 years ago of a revelation the Lord had given him: "There is no love in Laodicea." How true.

Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.… Rev. 3:17-18

We need the Savior!