Double Standards

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Freedom

Unfortunately, the precedent that has been set within the LC is that of rewarding loyalty. I don't think members are incapable of loving those outside the LC, but they also know that loyalty to the LC comes first no matter what. If loving someone would interfere with loyalty to the system, then loyalty comes first.

A type of mutual love does exist between LC members, such as what is discussed in Matt 5, but unfortunately, this type of pretentious love and the environment that it creates is often taken to mean something significant, when it's really not.

The mutual love mentioned in Freedom's post is really a type of conditional love. As long as you're there for the ministry, there will be the appearance of love.

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. " 1 Corinthians 13:1

In the LSM/LC fellowship it's loyalty that trumps whatever love may be. The blended brothers for years have been "a noisy gong" as I have a difficult time seeing any love from.
Even locally in the Puget Sound region local elders may verbally express love for one Indiana, but to exhibit love to this brother they cannot even speak to him.
It may be loyalty is considered unconditional. For an elder, to have their loyalty to LSM brought under scrutiny is non-negotiable.