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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I enjoyed this post.
Couple of comments in response.
1. I like GW. And, yes we are probably quite similar in many respects. However, I did experience a year and a half where he was trying to break me in the same way you might break a horse.
2. I find it very difficult to consider my experience "dancing around the edges":
Houston with RG and BP -- not the edges
Irving at time of construction -- not edges
Odessa -- at time the gospel move was all the rage, hence the reason to send GW and 2 other brothers out there.
NH -- that was the edges, but it was for one year.
Taipei during the FTTT -- not the edges, though perhaps from a US perspective.
NY -- not the edge, a very significant church, though loosely affiliated with lSM.
Also, although I didn't major in WL I actively spoke and taught the bible virtually every week and trained trainees in the gospel work.
Personally, I feel that saints who attended LRC meetings as the sum total of their Christian experience, in my mind they were dancing around the edges of the Christian experience. Yes I heard many quote WL in messages and testimonies, but I always felt this was due to a lack of experience of Christ of their own.
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I'm glad you took my post the way you did. I definitely was not complaining about anything, just wondering if there was some angle that explained your experience and observations that maybe none of us had previously considered.
As for the "dancing around the edges" part, it was probably not the best cliché for what I was thinking. But even down there in Houston under RG, and then being in the FTTT, your own description of your experiences seems to reflect an attitude, perspective, etc., that was not commonplace for even others where you might have been at the times (especially in Houston). I'm sure that you were really into it enough. And it looked enough like the mainstream LRC thing to fool others (not that you had any idea of fooling anyone) and to even make you consider yourself down in the main thing.
But there is just some kind of disconnect that I think maybe even you weren't able to see at the time.
In any case, just some observations of history from a different perspective.