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Originally Posted by Ohio
"... 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.
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Did not brother Norm cover this matter of this letter on another forum?
This word that David Canfield said:
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it now seems clear that the case was not nearly so one-sided as we in the churches outside of California had assumed."
I think with the Great Lakes Area, Titus' word would be good enough. In the Northwest Joel Kennon's word, Roth Williamson's word and Sherman Robertson's word was good enough. Good enough for the saints. If the brothers said this senior co-workers were rebellious and ambitious, then it must be true. Unless you were one who heard about John Ingall's book and took the time to read it with an open heart.
If one who isn't satisfied with the brother's word and need to find out for their conscience sake from John Ingalls or from John So what their discernment is, then you will be poisoned. At least that's what the teaching from LSM is.
As I understand David's word is the churches bearly everywhere outside of Orange County California took the word coming out of Witness Lee and LSM at face value. Even if it did not correspond with your experience of the quarantined brothers, it must be true.
As the great lake localities pass through their own turbulence, for some it afforded opportunities to find out what really happened to these former leading ones in 1990? Could their experience be also ours?
I think what David isn't saying so plainly is Living Stream did such an excellent job misleading the churches, even he believed to be true for a time.