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Originally Posted by Truth

There is nothing wrong with doing your own work, having your own ministry. However, the way Titus was doing it by speaking negatively against the BB behind their backs, putting down their ministry... Hey, if I were the BB, I would have not been happy either.

As I said in previous posts, there is nothing wrong with having your own ministry. The problem is the competition. And Titus WAS competing against the BB for supporters and loyalists. There is no doubt in my mind about that!

Truth, you mentioned a noteworthy point. Only in the Recovery is a brother condemned for "doing his own work, and having his own ministry." No where in the Bible or the greater body of Christ is this matter frowned upon. Being from Ohio, I was well aware of both the work of Witness Lee and the work of Titus Chu, and how they were often at odds.

Both of these brothers refused to share their "glory" with another. Both regularly attacked potential rivals with these spurious charges, as if doing what the Bible instructs is now some how a "crime" worthy of quarantine. How strange and askew was the programed mindset in the Recovery!

In the Great Lakes area this became one of those ultimate contradictions. Titus would always charge the full-time brothers to "have your own ministry," yet would add a little footnote that these ministries could not be built "using the church." What? Is only Titus allowed to build up his ministry on the backs of the saints? How hypocritical is that? Tens of thousands of volunteer labor and hundreds of thousands of saints' monies have gone into building up his ministry, but no one else can "use" the church?

What was John Myer doing that got him "discharged" from the work in the Great Lakes area? Just "doing his own work, and having his own ministry." He was just doing what Titus was doing, with one exception -- I never once heard John badmouth Titus the way Titus badmouthed everyone else.