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Originally Posted by Ohio
Of course. About the same time I was told that filing lawsuits was the same as " appealing to Caesar," as if suing Christians made us more scriptural than other Christians. 
The Ohio LC's were never as extreme as other places, especially not in those early days. Some of the stuff I have read since leaving the LC's still makes my head spin -- like some of the abuses mentioned by the Casteels. It's no wonder they suffered so much retaliation.
There was, however, always an undercurrent of dissent in the region, that the Ohio leadership was not as "absolute for the ministry" as other places, especially Texas/Oklahoma. Thank the Lord for that!
During the Midwest quarantines, operatives from LSM/DCP built upon those long-standing dissents, as they moved in to divide the LC's and plunder their spoils. |
Ohio, I can remember the time after the Lords table meeting in the Church in Diamond Bar, the leading brother asking the assembly to specifically label the tithes for DCP because that was where funds were needed. Of course, we were only to do so if the Spirit led. What a joke. It made me so uncomfortable to be sitting in the gathered saints listening to them discuss the lawsuits and the 'defence' of the ministry. I could not contribute.
Do they need tithes to be earmarked for specific purposes, to be in accordance with some law?? This was a large church with four languages meeting, in a big hall, divided for the table meeting. Is it illegal for a church to funnel tithes into their own personal lawyers pockets without knowledge or permission from the contributors? Crazy this is even a topic to discuss, of a 'church' and its' business dealings. Is that why they asked us to write where we wanted the money to go on the checks??