Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry
"In 1989 a number of senior co-workers who could not go along with the new emphasis on the ministry, and who also felt there were some very serious problems internally at the Living Stream Ministry itself, rose up in an attempt to warn Brother Lee concerning these matters, but he would not accept their admonition. Instead, he and those around him eventually labeled these co-workers as “divisive” and “rebellious,” and then put them out of the fellowship.
In the U.S., this turmoil mainly affected the churches in California. Those of us who were outside of that area, and not so directly involved, simply assumed that Brother Lee and those with him must have been right to take such action. Today, however, we may say that while there are different views as to what exactly happened in this turmoil, and whether or not the brothers who were put out conducted themselves in a proper manner, it now seems clear that the case was not nearly so one-sided as we in the churches outside of California had assumed."
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Is that the best Canfield can do? This book is supposed to provide an objective, fair-minded account of the events which occurred in the Recovery?
I don't think so! And then brother Canfield
returns to his regularly scheduled program and continues to heap endless accolades upon WL. But just wait a minute here ...
"... it now seems clear that the case was not nearly so one-sided as we in the churches outside of California had assumed."
Did I really read this? Was it really the churches outside of CA that
assumed all was well in "Disneyland?" These kind of claims just make me sick. This is just the evil workers in the Recovery blaming the churches for doing what they did themselves. Did not all the GLA churches trust Titus Chu and James Reetzke Sr. to adequately investigate the events in Anaheim before these two signed that letter of condemnation to John Ingalls?
Don't tell me that Titus Chu and James Reetzke Sr. were "coerced" into signing that letter of condemnation just like they were "forced" to sign the "letter of allegiance" to WL back in Feb 1986. Did not the two of them just trade their righteousness for hypocrisy, and integrity for man-pleasing? Wouldn't be the last time Reetzke did this either, since the Blendeds demanded the same hypocrisy of him before they could quarantine Titus Chu.
On a leadership level (
not referring to the saints here), the history of the Recovery since WN was incarcerated in the late 40's, is just an endless series of political back-stabbings for self gains. That what happens when another man, any man, is promoted above The Man Christ Jesus. Allegiance to man, whether it be oneness with the Minister of the Age or oneness with the Holy See, always results in corruption. Eventually that corruption pollutes, not just the leadership, but the whole lump.
It is this corruption which brothers like John Ingalls cried out against.