Why Did We Totally Miss the Mark?

[OBW]

Let's take it one step further.

WL said "we, in the past, were wrong!"

When is "in the past"?

Is it long enough ago that we have since become right? Yet "we" have some need for an admission about the the unstated things for which we "were wrong?

Since no specific apology for any specific thing was given, do we presume that scripture should be rewritten to say "time covers a multitude of sins"? Does the fact that it was "in the past" mean that we can have a vague repentance to God, but not to those toward whom we were wrong?

Or was is just that we had wrong teachings and doctrines? Were we simply in error at some point in the past? Is Lee reticent that he allowed some to abandon the LRC because the teachings were bad, and now that they are better, they are gone and not benefiting?

Of course Lee's repentance was not that unstructured. But when he said the following, what did he mean?

I am really sorry…toward the Body of Christ, also really sorry, not only toward the brothers and sisters among us, but even to those in the denominations, also really sorry toward them…(a long pause) You must bring this message back, read it once, read it twice, and come together to fellowship with one another. Then you will see that we, in the past, were wrong!

Of course, denominations are wrong. The sectarianism is what God condemns the most. However, the Lord still hopes that all His children… do not have such condemnation. Such an understanding and analysis will require much effort. I say again, you must, some people, a few people, come together to read, pray, speak and say…

Bring back what message? That we are sorry about something toward the Body of Christ? Either you (Lee) or your continuation have defined the Body of Christ as only the LRC, and then only if you are really in your spirit (nothing about The Spirit).

There is no understanding or analysis that will require effort. Lee was wrong. As a result, the LRC was wrong. Many of us even carried a lot of that wrong with us into our new found assemblies when we left the LRC. Nothing needing a lot of analysis or understanding other than "we were wrong."

And he didn't really say what they were wrong about. He still says denominations are wrong. Just don't "have such condemnation" about it. So how much condemnation is enough less than "such condemnation"? He surely didn't say to go to the Bible Answer Man and say that they were too much. He did not say to apologize to your relatives that you breathed fire upon when you went to family reunions and scoffed at their "pathetic, religious" prayers, services, etc. He didn't specify anything.

Actually, it reminds me a lot of the politically correct mentality that says you can't put a rapist or murderer in jail any more because you have to take into account his bad upbringing. So instead of prison, we all just wring our hands in quiet angst over the situation and do nothing.

And in this case, that is exactly what happened. If you weren't there but are still in the LRC, you never even heard that there was a repentance. And if you know about it, the best we can figure out (in translated form) is that Lee repented for thinking about things in a wrong way. Surely there was no effort intended to reach out to ask for forgiveness.

And from West Side Story:

Gee Officer Crumpky, we're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a guy with a social disease.
Hey, Officer Crumpky, what are we to do??
Gee Officer Crumpky, . . . .

(If you don't know what they said, don't bother asking. I don't think we can post it.)