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Old 08-27-2014, 04:56 AM   #11
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Default Re: LSM's Etymological Errors - Nigel Tomes

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I met with the Church in Detroit in 1973 and migrated to Ft. Lauderdale with them the following year. Harry Ahlers was fully accepted as an elder by elders Ron Kangas and Tim Scroggins as evidenced by the fact that they prayed together and conferred with one another regularly and stood together whenever they made a decision concerning the members during that time. I saw no evidence of dissension among those three.

Five local churches migrated to Fort Lauderdale not just the "Church in Detroit." Harry Ahlers lacked the authority to make that happen. Ask yourself who had the authority and you will have your answer. There was only one man in the so called Recovery in the US that I know of who could snap his fingers and move five churches. The "move" was called the "Consolidation." Who was it that liked to have catchy titles like that for everything he did in the name of the Lord? So Witness Lee's footprint was all over that move.

It's sad that someone scapegoated Harry Ahlers for what was probably later viewed as a failure by Witness Lee when 1) it didn't produce the numbers he was after and 2) he was forced to relieve Mel Porter of his eldership in Miami several years later. If Witness Lee blamed him, it seems plausible that it was because he did not want to take responsibility himself.
That doesn't sound like the WL I remember. He was always willing to take responsibility for anything good that happened.
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