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Originally Posted by rayliotta
I was in a meeting in which Don Looper discussed the pipeline concept. He referred to the fact that the term, "the pipeline", had been credited to him. While I don't remember exactly what he said, he did say something to the effect of, that he didn't think it had come from him, but that that's what people were saying. Almost as if he had resigned himself to taking credit for coining the phrase.
Does that make sense to anyone?
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The pipeline concept was a formal attempt to stop the mass exodus of young people away from the Local Churches. It was organizational, and systematic, and was a reaction of man and not an action of God (along with about 45 other "moves" and "flows" that I can think of). I can understand why Don Looper was uneasy to be associated with it. His conscience was probably protesting.
And Gene Gruhler's spoken notes show the manipulation and control that lie very close to the surface. Yes it is "for the gospel to the young people", but look at the methods... they could be used effectively, and are, for any kind of mind-control cult. Isolate the vulnerable ones, browbeat them and wear them down, get them to uncritically commit to YOUR proposition, and then put them in a system in which they are constantly warned not to question anything. Just do what Big Brother says and everything will be fine.
The Local Churches have a veneer of orthodoxy, and that is one of their recruiting tools, but please understand that underneath they are a cancerous mass of heteropraxy stretching back through Watchman Nee and the Bretheren perhaps to the gospels, i.e. "And they were all arguing to see which one of them was the greatest". All of these weird practices were cooked up by people who had a deeply-rooted need to control the ecclesia and re-shape it in their image. Witness Lee duplication centers, anyone? Remember that one? Gene Gruhler's "gospel methods" and Don Looper's "pipeline" were just the initial steps in a pervasive, controlling system of error.