Open Letter to Saints in The Local Churches - Andrea McArdle

[Gubei]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

As Posted on GoogleDocs.Com

The elders did not call the police and they did not recommend therapy of any kind. Growing up in the Local Churches, we were taught that mental health professionals are in the “wrong realm” and that they would not understand those of us who have the “high truths.” This mistrust of psychiatry was verbally conveyed in meetings by leading brothers over the years, and is written in the books of ‘The Ministry.’ In a similar way that the victim was groomed by his “prayer partner” for sexual abuse, I had been groomed by the Local Churches to be complicit in covering up a perpertrator’s action.
Andrea McArdle
andrea.mcardle@gmail.com

Meetings I reference:
Special fellowship mtg:
http://livingtohim.com/2019/07/speci...nual-training/

Message 8 Ron Kangas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1MMmy...ZHrWTseb8KRpq9

Jo's letter:
http://bit.ly/JoFBPostLeavingRecovery

Recently, I coined a word "Body of Christ Totalitarianism", which only concerns corporate benefit at the expense of individual saints' basic rights. According to my experience, I believe the more individuality of saints are promoted in the right way, the more the body of Christ is built up.

Unfortunately, the LCers believe the more individual saints sacrifice themselves the more the body will be built up. Simply speaking, a wrong causation.

[Raptor]

Originally Posted by Gubei

Recently, I coined a word "Body of Christ Totalitarianism", which only concerns corporate benefit at the expense of individual saints' basic rights. According to my experience, I believe the more individuality of saints are promoted in the right way, the more the body of Christ is built up.

Unfortunately, the LCers believe the more individual saints sacrifice themselves the more the body will be built up. Simply speaking, a wrong causation.

Ephesians 4:16 From Him the whole body is fitted and held together by every supporting ligament. And as each individual part does its work, the body grows and builds itself up in love.

[Gubei]

Originally Posted by Raptor

Ephesians 4:16 From Him the whole body is fitted and held together by every supporting ligament. And as each individual part does its work, the body grows and builds itself up in love.

In principle this "Body of Christ totalitarianism" is very similar to Fascism, Nazism, and Tenno totalitarianism (in Japan). They thought their nations are superior to others (elitism, eugenics), took the measure of raging war with others (aggressiveness to other Christians).

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Gubei

Recently, I coined a word "Body of Christ Totalitarianism", which only concerns corporate benefit at the expense of individual saints' basic rights. According to my experience, I believe the more individuality of saints are promoted in the right way, the more the body of Christ is built up.

Unfortunately, the LCers believe the more individual saints sacrifice themselves the more the body will be built up. Simply speaking, a wrong causation.

Gubei, I definitely agree with these connections. Human nature and its lust for power will always be the same.

Said in a different way, Lee and LSM speak of the glorious church and the organic body of Christ as the goal of God's N.T. economy, but it's only used as a decoy to cover their totalitarian plans to control all the LC's and the saints -- no opinions, no freedoms, no diversity, no liberty of expression.

As proof, look at what they do to those who think a little differently or voice their concerns about corruption in the leadership.

[awareness]

Where's 'The New Man' when we need him?

[Gubei]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Gubei, I definitely agree with these connections. Human nature and its lust for power will always be the same.

Said in a different way, Lee and LSM speak of the glorious church and the organic body of Christ as the goal of God's N.T. economy, but it's only used as a decoy to cover their totalitarian plans to control all the LC's and the saints -- no opinions, no freedoms, no diversity, no liberty of expression.

As proof, look at what they do to those who think a little differently or voice their concerns about corruption in the leadership.

Thanks, Ohio

1. In western philosophy, Kierkegaard already exposed individuality (individual saint) is superior to Crowd (wrongly conceptualized body of Christ). You can google and find a lot of insightful thoughts about this. Following is one of them.

“Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.”

2. Ephesians 4:1 is shockingly fitted with these findings by Kierkegaard. I mean God gave us not only the Bible but also sound reasoning, and both give us the same conclusion. Unfortunately, WL's teachings seems to be more from die-hard Asian values. (FYI, I'm South Korean. born and grew up in this country, qualified to talk about Asian values ).