What a Lack of Increase Really Means for the LC

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Freedom

In my own case, it was my experiences and frustration in the LC that led to me reading up on the history. The LC might say that people become 'poisoned' after they read what is out there, but it seems more often than not, that is just the final step on the path out of the LC.

When people get to that point where they are willing to read everything they've been told not to read, you know they must already be disillusioned enough to not really care anymore.

My experience is that the Lord just sort of dried things up regarding the LC. I think things were already just getting pretty dim in the locality we were in, and then I got a job which transferred us a couple thousand miles away to the middle of the Mojave Desert. There was a LC about a hundred miles away, but by that time I really wanted some space from them.

I still thought the LC was "it" however. It took a few years more of drying out before I contacted John Ingalls somewhere around 1991 or 92 (I don't remember how I knew to call him - perhaps it was someone in the Scottsdale group told me). By then I was ready to hear what John had to say, and he sent me a copy of his new book about what the Lord had showed him concerning WL/LSM. It distressed me as I knew I didn't want to go back to the LC, but I had also swallowed the idea that "there was nothing else out there of any value." So finally, in desperation, He was able to lead me to writings that clearly demonstrated the experience/enjoyment of Christ as their main focus (e.g., Piper), which were not part of the whole LC world. Praise God!!!