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Originally Posted by Igzy
In my opinion, the better the ministry the more it tends to produce leaders. By this measure Lee's is near the bottom because all it produces is followers. As a matter of fact, Lee's ministry is geared to not produce leaders, but rather to punish anyone who tries to take things to the next level. This places Lee's ministry as possibly one of the worst of all time. All it can produce in the end is stagnation.
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Things were not always this way. In the early days scores of leaders flourished in the LC's. The spread of the LC's was never thru Lee directly, but thru the numerous gifted brothers, most of them now long gone, who were affiliated with the movement.
It was a combination of things, such as the lust for power and the love of the glory of men, which has drug the program into stagnation and obscurity. Who wants to be a "Witness Lee tape recorder?" Lee's heart grew smaller over the years, and in the end was not big enough to allow anything more than teams of cheerleaders. How sad!
I watched Titus Chu follow the same course. He would take full credit for "raising up" numerous gifted brothers like Nigel Tomes, John Myer, Phil Comfort, Chuck Debelek, and even "Toledo" Tom McNaughton, but due to Lee's same love of power and recognition, held these brothers in subjection "under his thumb" until they basically "had enough of it" and left.
These are not true leaders, but insecure men who are threatened by peers. They refused to be "moderated" by others whom God had placed at their side. They talked about there being "no hierarchy" in the body of Christ, but that presupposed that all brothers would submit to them unreservedly.
Today there are NO remaining leaders in the LC's or at LSM. No one knows how to follow the Lord and serve Him. No one has a real ministry. All they can do is read Lee's books, promote another dead teaching and failed practice, demand their loyal adherents to rally around, and then repeat the cycle at the next "feast."