Experiences in South Florida Around 1980

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by awareness

The Sunday morning meeting of the excommunication evening meeting nothing significant happened. After the meeting Danny and Kathy invited my wife and I to have lunch at their house. We knew them since the C. in Santa Cruz, Ca. where we all came into the LC. Danny and Kathy were sweet saints, and were not involved in any controversy going on at the time. And it stayed that way during lunch and fellowship afterwords. The only strange thing that happened was when we went out to enjoy the beautiful South Florida day. We noticed about a half a dozen brothers out on their porch about 5 houses down across the street. They were pointing our way. We waved at them and shouted Praise the Lord, with no response from them. We thought nothing of it.

But it made sense in the evening meeting. The evening meeting started off like any other meeting. There was no sign that before it was over the whole place would turn into bizarre-o-land.

A few brothers gave some testimonies and then Dale Jackson stood up. He said something along the line of : "Today a brother had lunch at Danny and Kathy's house and he poisoned them against Witness Lee. And this brother should stand up and confess and repent before the whole church." My name wasn't mentioned, but those close to Danny and Kathy, and my wife and I, knew who Dale was talking about ... and certainly we knew who he was talking about.

Still, I didn't stand up and confess because I had nothing to confess. There was no truth at all in what Dale said. Plus, there was no way he could have known what went on at lunch unless Danny and/or Kathy told, or my wife had told. And they would have had nothing on the order of poisoning to tell. Nothing like that happened in any way shape or form. I was dumbfounded.

Generally speaking, when you're a brother or sister who sees no reason to play politics, nor will cowtow to anyone; anyone who associates with you will be viewed as being poisoned.
In my own experience, that explains some things....why there is no objectivity to concerns, matters, and issues.