The Building and a Bride in the Bible

[Indiana]

Originally Posted by alwayslearning

I have stated elsewhere that my view of LC system history (and all history for that matter) is that good and bad exist simultaneously along the time line. For some reason you have arbitrarily decided that everything was fine and dandy in the LC system from 1920 - 1974 and then it went downhill. And apparently you have also decided that you will not discuss any negative things that happened from 1920-1974 and neither should anybody else because in your opinion they are not worth discussing.

If you want to do LC system history that way well OK but I don't and neither do a lot of other people because we know otherwise.

AW, I am not as an historian, just collecting facts.

I believe that people who “know otherwise" than Don Rutledge has reported are thinking too much, not applying themselves to the discerning of times and seasons. That is to say, such ones don’t know as they ought to know.

They do not balance their contributions on the forum with "the good and bad existing simultaneously along the time line." Their balance weighs heavily on the negative side; blinded, it seems, by what they know.

Have you read Don’s fellowship on local church history, and how he, with love, reported the pertinent things, the developments, the inclinations of heart in his brothers that later became more clearly manifested? He put matters into perspective as a father and mother might, overseeing the history, carefully, in heart; and with discernment of the meaning and worth publicly of what he was sharing.

Witness Lee was his friend and loved Don; he personally was a help and encouragement to him. In reporting the truth about him, Don was honest, yet respectful concerning brother Lee; and also loving. This is not the case with those “who know otherwise”, in near total disregard of Witness Lee.

John Ingalls, by the way, when I interviewed him in 2001, sitting in the LR of his home he spoke in the tenderest manner of Witness Lee. I then spent 5 hours with Bill and Barbara Mallon and he was exceedingly soft also. Both brothers, plus Al Knoch, were like this, but fully bewildered that the brother who brought such light and life to them could be the same one manifest to them in the late eighties.

Don's Fellowship
http://www.makingstraightthewayofthe...DonBookch1.pdf

http://www.makingstraightthewayofthe...ChapterTwo.pdf

Steve Isitt
2-13, 2013
The Philippines