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Originally Posted by countmeworthy

Did you ever find out what those 2 strikes were?

This occurred in 1978 or 1979 at the latest. After 40 years of consideration I feel confident it had to do with my attitude towards WL. I had been warned to stay away from "the Lord's recovery" because they thought they were better than everyone else. I didn't realize the Local Church was also called the Lord's recovery until I was in the Ephesians training and almost bolted in the middle of a message when I realized this. The second strike would have been this offhand remark that I had not gotten anything from a WL book I had read.

Originally Posted by countmeworthy

How long after being on the verge of being on the excommunication list did you leave? Or were you excommunicated ?

Funny. After that conference in the elders room there were further attacks. I have shared them in my testimony, but in brief they targeted me for an innuendo attack during a Friday night meeting. However, the Lord used that to train me, I went home, prayed, was touched by the verses in Galatians that "I did not give place to them for five minutes" and was the first one to pop up Sunday morning. The brother sitting next to me was shocked and initially tried to hold me down.

After that during one training they had me stay with the two Salassi brothers (elders in Houston) and an Elder during one of the Anaheim trainings. Whenever I tried to speak in fellowship one of the Salassi brothers would tell me to shut up. It was a miserable ten days and I felt like an idiot paying both in money and time for this experience. But again, the Lord used that because I learned a valuable lesson that I used later and was a great comfort to me. After that I went to Irving when they went to build the meeting hall and was full time for 18 months. After that I moved to Odessa to help raise up the church there, GW was sent out to deal with me, but after the training I had received I knew how to stand up to him and he felt the Lord's wrath. After that I was in the Full time training in Taipei and stayed in Taipei from 1987 to 1995 and was training trainees that went to Russia. After that I returned to NY. So no, I was not excommunicated and it was 20 years after that that I left.