History, Not Hagiography - "Great Leap Forward" "The God-Ordaned Way" TOMES

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Originally Posted by Terry

As I quote Nigel in this article, In the 1980s the Recovery’s “one trumpet” promoted the New Way, emphasizing numbers and rapid growth. However, as the Recovery entered the 1990s, Bro. W. Lee’s tune changed dramatically. He now emphasized the Recovery was a “narrow way” which couldn’t expect rapid increase! In 1992, only 6 years after launching the “New Way,” he declared,32 “We have to realize that the way we take in following the Lord cannot have a high rate of increase. The way we are taking is really a narrow way.”

Freedom, maybe the brothers missed when Witness Lee changed his tune regarding the new way and the emphasis on numbers and rapid growth?

This is so true. I went to the FTTT during the peak of the "New Way," and the blended trainer minions had a huge chart on display, constantly calling it's figures "Brother Lee's." It showed dramatic projections of growth world wide until the year 2000 when the whole earth would be saved. None of us dared to question the statistics, or that would have been "blowing cold winds" on the Lord's move.