The Thread of Gold - Jane Carole Anderson

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by OBW

Is it something that can be sort of spelled out, or is it somewhat intangible? What actually happened?

From a young man's point of view, it was great fun. Like a high school pep rally before the big game. Max had somehow unleashed a kind of euphoria, building upon months of anti-religious fervor, so that there were nearly no boundaries remaining. At one point, brothers used the table, which held the bread and wine, and jumped off into the arms of catchers. After a few jumpers, that table splintered into pieces. TC himself was carried on one brother's shoulders around the front. We sang songs about being rip, roaring drunk in the Spirit. Personally I was a "reserved" observer (but still standing on my chair yelling and clapping) several rows back, but if someone had started streaking around the room, they would not have been out of place.

This happened all weekend long. Then we were all told to come back the following weekend to receive our instructions. Things were a little different by then. Max never made it the second weekend.

Several years ago the forum discussed the events surrounding those weekends. Being so young at the time, I was quite naive to the behind-the-scene dynamics of the leaders. WL used Max to travel around stirring up the pot. Max brought with him a cadre of supporters into Chicago. Max fueled fleshly zeal by using anti-religious sentiments in order to capture the control of young people, undermining their respect to local leaders. Local elders and workers were all blamed for the churches being "stinking religious." The ministry plan was to have all the young people relocate to ministry centers, or to campuses. This had happened in other places around the country.

TC really did preserve the condition of LC's in the GLA. Only he was "man enough" to stand up to Max and company. The elders close to TC refused to resign their position in shameful disgrace, as many had done already. In the aftermath, there was some heated dissension in greater Cleveland by some who felt the church was not faithful to "WL's burden."

After witnessing how WL thru Max had actively tried to destroy LC's, discredited elders, unleashed fleshly zeal, and damaged the faith of so many precious saints, it's hard for me to understand why GLA leaders, mainly TC, did not cut all ties with WL and LSM back then. Each time things would sour in the Recovery, WL had a way of blaming all his lieutenants for the problems, and he would come out smelling like a rose. WL never took the responsibility for any of the chaos and destruction. The lieutenants closest to him would all depart in shame, while the remaining saints would gather around WL as today's Apostle. Happened every time.

Originally Posted by Ohio

Each time things would sour in the Recovery, WL had a way of blaming all his lieutenants for the problems, and he would come out smelling like a rose. WL never took the responsibility for any of the chaos and destruction. The lieutenants closest to him would all depart in shame, while the remaining saints would gather around WL as today's Apostle. Happened every time.

Witness Lee understood the benefit of delegating the "dirty work" to others. He could sit back and watch and if things didn't turn out as planned he would have a fall guy.

If you set aside the highfalutin spiritual terminology of Lee's work and go beneath the surface to see how it actually operated you will discover how fleshly and base it really was: petty jealousies among workers, territorial disputes, immoral behavior, financial shenanigans, shabby mistreatment, Machiavellian political machinations, etc.

[OBW]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Each time things would sour in the Recovery, WL had a way of blaming all his lieutenants for the problems, and he would come out smelling like a rose. WL never took the responsibility for any of the chaos and destruction. The lieutenants closest to him would all depart in shame, while the remaining saints would gather around WL as today's Apostle. Happened every time.

I note that someone else commented on this portion and it reminded me of a thought on the subject that came to me while I was on a business trip to that land of Toronto.

I saw something in a comment back to or concerning Jane and a name that I did not really know reminded me of that little back and forth a couple of years ago concerning her report about some political squabbling that went on between the TX/OK region and the GLA over some other place sort of in between (IA or MO, maybe??). Anyway, I realized that in that particular case, no matter how strongly the guy Jane had reported from denied everything (once the LSM got hold of him), it appears that BP was basically trying to extend his realm of control at the same time that TC was doing the same thing.

So, it may not be as simple as "the underlings are going crazy and I'm not to blame," there is evidence that they were going crazy.

And it could be that this was one of those things that Lee was never going to get directly involved in anyway because he seemed to be less likely to say or do anything negative concerning another Chinese person. He left that to the arrogant Americans.

But those pesky Americans were always good scapegoats.

[Nell]

There is a condensed version of The Thread of Gold available on Amazon, 39 pages. The name of it is:

Deceived: A Warning to Campus Christians

https://www.amazon.com/registry/wish...bmit.promote=1
http://www.thethreadofgold.com

Nell