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Originally Posted by Indiana
ShepherdingWords.com misguides, rather than shepherds the saints, in their aversion to the truth, saying that "rumors that have arisen over the years regarding the local churches and the ministry of God’s word through [Nee and Lee], are in the nature of myths (1 Tim. 1:4; 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:4), that is, narrative stories without factual basis."
This is vacuous speaking, and therefore worthless to truth seekers. These co-workers even say, “Some of these rumors were long ago disproven but still circulate today”. They do circulate BECAUSE they are not dealt with. Our brothers have no penchant for the truth, and simply defer to WL who also had the same penchant. There is no truth-telling among them and no renouncing of the hidden things of shame.
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I remember before I had read anything about the LC on the internet, I had been led to believe that it was all written by people who had no relation to the LC and were just making things up. I was surprised to learn that most of it is written by former members, and most of it addresses serious issues that necessitate a response from LC leadership.
One of the major things that the LSM/DCP/blendeds get wrong is that they characterize people's own experiences in the LC as being invalid or false. When you look closely at LC history, there have been numerous situations where people in the LC developed completely valid concerns. Daystar caused a mass exodus from the LC. Phillip Lee caused a mass exodus from the LC. If nothing else, both of those situations were certainly noteworthy in that they led to a massive loss of members.
The thing that's so outrageous about it all is that the new shepherdingwords.com site characterizes all these situations and the facts pertaining to them as "rumors" saying everything was "long ago disproven". If so, why wouldn't they have made at attempt at clarification when those situations were actually happening? Why wouldn't they have taken every opportunity to keep people from leaving? They never did that. And they didn't do that because the facts were the very reasons that people left. People didn't leave because of rumors. They left because of what actually happened.