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Originally Posted by Terry
To appoint brothers as elders who were loyal to his decision making, Lee can very well say "I don't control any church", but that is not the same as saying "I don't influence any church". Just be having elders in place partial to you, they will do your bidding and able to implement Lee's influence without Lee controlling the church.
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True but IMHO this is just linguistic gymnastics. Witness Lee indeed on numerous occasions declared that he did not control the churches but what did he control? The local leadership of the churches, the curriculum of the churches and who was allowed to minister to the churches i.e. who was allowed to be elders, who was allowed to be coworkers, who was allowed to minister and what they were allowed to minister. If this isn't control I don't know what is!