Attempting to SEEM inclusive

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Freedom

I've heard stories of some of the Chinese saints exerting pressure on their "contacts" in a forceful manner to make them get baptized, even arguing with them until they cave. This is why I find it so concerning that offshoot groups like the EL exist. When the EL killed someone in McDonalds for refusing to comply, that is the same principle of pressuring someone. The difference is in the amount of pressure and whether or not consequences are imposed.

Most LC members know that declining to do something can potentially get someone a label of being "negative" or "opposing", so going along with the pressure seems like a no-brainer to most. Being labeled as "negative" can have a particularly damaging effect on someone. It is a defamation of character, and if someone has family/relatives in the LC, it makes it even worse. In the LC there are consequences for refusing pressure, that is made clear to most members. Until members strike up the courage to resist pressure, the LC will become an uglier and uglier monster.

Which is exactly what happened to their predecessors, the Darby exclusives.

Back in the late 90's, Titus Chu of Cleveland and Jim Reetzke of Chicago visited some of them in the UK. TC told us publicly of two of their present day ordinances. First, they could not eat at the same family dinner table with any unsaved family member 12 years or older. Second, they could not live in a house that shared a sewer line with an unbeliever. I'm sure they have verses to support their abuses.